Bines

Hop to It bines, oast Hops grow on 20-foot-long plants called bines that climb a trellis of twine and wire strung from tall poles. ❋ Erin McKean (2011)

Bernard originally had a partner, horticultural expert Stan Driver, but Driver chose to drop out of the venture and now works as a consultant for Blue Mountain Brewery, which has 500-600 hop bines of its own. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The bristly bines grow 10 feet tall or higher, and can be an irritant. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Bernard says he modified a cherry picker to rip the bines off the trellises, and set up a system of pulleys to drop them into a tower, where three hired hands stood ready to pluck off the cones. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Too much wine and cheap champagne, too many bines, but it's always the same. ❋ Brodyblakk (2007)

But such paintings are “in time,” and stylistic critics such as Leo Spitzer (1962) and Murray Krieger (1967) argue specifically, and Coleridge and Croce generally, that literature is an object or artifact, that poetry can ultimately be spatial or “still,” that the reader com - bines the sequential details into a spatial moment, that ❋ JOHN GRAHAM (1968)

Galileo's conception of natural necessity, which he explains by occasional remarks in his Dialogues, com - bines the Platonic conviction that the structure of the universe is expressible in mathematical language, with the Baconian conviction that the truth of any scientific law or theory must be established by experiment and observation. ❋ STEPHAN K (1968)

However, the article as a whole makes it clear that eclecticism requires both imaginative genius, the gift to combine and explain, and the ability to gather evi - dence and to put facts to the test; only he who com - bines (objective) experimental and (subjective) system - atic eclecticism, like Democritus, Aristotle, and Bacon, may claim to be a truly eclectic philosopher in ❋ HELLMUT O. PAPPE (1968)

Burke has become a philosopher aiming at a system which com - bines psychoanalysis, Marxism, semantics, and “what - not” with literary criticism. ❋ REN (1968)

The concrete was first placed in the foundations up to the elevation of the bottom of the conduit bines, this work, of course, being kept well in advance; next followed, in the order named, the sand-walls, water-proofing, conduits, bench-walls, and finally the arch. ❋ F. Lavis (N/A)

This, the Soft Rush, is commonly used for tying the bines of hops to the poles; and, as these bines grow larger in size, the rushes wither, setting the bines free in a timely fashion. ❋ William Thomas Fernie (N/A)

Wherever she stopped to call or listen for Toby, she found herself at the converging point of eight green alleys; and from the root of every plant four strings stretched upwards and outwards to the wire trellis overhead, each with two bines climbing round it the way of the sun. ❋ Unknown (1939)

The hops were nearly all in, the stripped bines lay tumbled and tangled on the ground. ❋ Unknown (1939)

The role of bin-man, this year, was played by Tom Iggulsden himself, in the intervals of cutting down bines; and his assistant, who held the mouth of the poke open, was Vin. ❋ Unknown (1939)

Every week the bines reach higher on the hop-poles. ❋ Unknown (1938)

Better, perhaps, to say that their fragile bines of song climb all day up unseen hop-poles, so that the whole air is laced with tendrils of music and the Marsh is turned into an ethereal hop-garden, whose harvest no hands can pick, nor oast dry. ❋ Unknown (1938)

Tampering with those sweet bines, draws them out, strains them, strains them; ❋ Unknown (1918)

The dark-green bines were covered with fruit; and only yesterday he himself had informed me that he had not seen such a profusion of hops for many years. ❋ Vernon Lee (1895)

Piecework, for instance, was customary in the hop-gardens (now rapidly disappearing), where the women cut the bines and "tied" or "trained" the hops at so much per acre, providing their own rushes for the tying. ❋ George Sturt (1895)