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

The wheels also were locked, and the space between the ground and the bed-planks of the waggons was stuffed with branches of the "wait-a-bit" thorn that fortunately grew near in considerable quantities.

From Allan's Wife by Haggard, Henry Rider

The lion held up the river’s bank for a short distance, and took away through some wait-a-bit thorn cover, the best he could find, but nevertheless open.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850 by Various

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.

The British call them "wait-a-bit" thorns, and under either name they are equally dangerous.

From Adventures in Swaziland The Story of a South African Boer by O'Neil, Owen Rowe