yarb

yarb

See also: þarb

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)b

Noun

yarb (plural yarbs)

1. (Britain, dialectal, archaic) herb
   • 1857, Herman Melville, The Confidence-man: His Masquerade (page 165)

     The medicine is nat'ral yarbs, pure yarbs; yarbs must cure me.

   • 1906, George Banghart Henry Swayze, Yarb and Cretine (page 60)

     He was then generally known by the soubriquet of Yarb, or Yarb Man, as he preferred to be hailed, for the reason that he always carried with him a collection of yarrow, tansy, snake root, squaw root, choice buds and barks […]

   • 1939, Flora Thompson, Lark Rise

     Yarrow, or milleflower, was an exception; everybody still gathered that in large quantities to make 'yarb beer'.

Anagrams

• Bray, Raby, Ryba, bary-, bray