wait-a-bit

American  

[weyt-uh-bit] / ˈweɪt əˌbɪt /

noun

1. any of various plants bearing thorns or prickly appendages, as the grapple plant or the greenbrier.

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wait-a-bit British  

noun

1. any of various plants having sharp hooked thorns or similar appendages, esp the greenbrier and the grapple plant

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Etymology

Origin of wait-a-bit

1775–85; translation of Afrikaans wag-'n-bietjie < Dutch wacht een beetje

Example Sentences

After a fourteen miles' march the troop reached the Zwart Kop river, and, crossing the ford, encamped among the scattered mimosas and numerous wait-a-bit thorns.

From The Curse of Carne's Hold A Tale of Adventure by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

And they all had them easy-going, wait-a-bit kind of voices, and didn't see no pertic'ler importance in their "r's."

From Danny's Own Story by Marquis, Don

A sage-hen crouching low in sand and shadowed by wait-a-bit thorn twigs is pretty well hidden.

From The Red Mustang by Stoddard, William O.

From the river the ground rose gently upwards to the foot of the ridge, and was covered more or less densely with stunted trees and bushes, and of course the inevitable "wait-a-bit" thorns.

From The Man-Eaters of Tsavo and Other East African Adventures by Selous, Frederick Courteney

He suspected from this that they were some of the Swahilis of the party, and suspicion became certainty when Bill discovered a tiny strip of white cotton on a spike of a wait-a-bit thorn-bush.

From Settlers and Scouts by Strang, Herbert