yarb

See also: þarb

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)b

Noun

yarb (plural yarbs)

1. (UK, dialect, 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