treflen.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > leguminous plants > [noun] > clover or trefoil
white clovereOE
cloverc1000
hare-foota1300
clerewort?a1400
clover-grassa1400
three-leaved grass14..
trefoilc1400
sucklingc1440
four-leaved grassc1450
trefle1510
Trifolium?1541
trinity grass1545
Dutch1548
lote1548
hare's-foot1562
lotus1562
triple grass1562
blain-grass1570
meadow trefoil1578
purple grass1597
purplewort1597
satin flower1597
cithyse1620
true-love grass?a1629
garden balsam1633
hop-clover1679
Burgundian hay1712
strawberry trefoil1731
honeysuckle trefoil1735
red clover1764
buffalo-clover1767
marl-grass1776
purple trefoil1785
white trefoil1785
yellow trefoil1785
sulla1787
cow-grass1789
strawberry-bearing trefoil1796
zigzag trefoil1796
rabbit's foot1817
lotus grass1820
strawberry-headed trefoil1822
mountain liquorice1836
hop-trefoil1855
clustered clover1858
alsike1881
mountain clover1882
knop1897
Swedish clover1908
sub clover1920
four-leaf clover1927
suckle-
1510 J. Stanbridge Vocabula (W. de W.) D ij b Trifolium, trefle grasse.
1527 L. Andrewe tr. H. Brunschwig Vertuose Boke Distyllacyon sig. Kj Trayfles, Trifolium in latyn.
2. Military. A mine having three chambers: see quots.
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society > armed hostility > attack > action or state of siege or blockade > [noun] > mine(s) > type of
trefle1756
1756 H. Manningham tr. P. Surirey de Saint-Rémy Compl. Treat. Mines (new ed.) 104 The Difference between the Trestle..and T Mine..is, that the Trestle has but two Lodgments..which buttress near the Chamber.
1853 J. H. Stocqueler Mil. Encycl. 289/2 Trefle (Trefoil), a term used in mining, from the similarity of the figure to trefoil. The simple trefle has only two lodgments; the double trefle, four; and the triple one, six.
1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Trefle (Fortification), a mine with three chambers, like a trefoil.
3. A figure or arrangement like that of a triple leaf: = trefoil n. 3.
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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > three > condition of being threefold > [noun] > threefold arrangement
trefoil1418
trefle1877
1877 E. Coues & J. A. Allen Monogr. N. Amer. Rodentia (U.S. Geol. Surv. Territories, vol. XI) 151 Anterior lower molar of 5 to 8 prisms, of which the anterior forms an irregular treffle.
1889 Pall Mall Gaz. 3 Jan. 4/1 The placing of the Maxim gun underneath the orchestra,..pointing across the ballroom... Around it was a trefle of harness and carbines.
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