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Definitions for Nettles
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Wiktionary
nettlesnoun
Small lengths of cord attached to a sail, used to secure the excess fabric after reefing; reef points
Webster Dictionary
Nettles
the halves of yarns in the unlaid end of a rope twisted for pointing or grafting
Nettles
small lines used to sling hammocks under the deck beams
Nettles
reef points
Etymology: [See Knittle.]
Dictionary of Nautical Terms
nettles
Small line used for seizings, and for hammock-clues. (See KNITTLE.)--To nettle, is to provoke.
Surnames Frequency by Census Records
NETTLES
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Nettles is ranked #3198 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Nettles surname appeared 11,302 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 4 would have the surname Nettles.
57% or 6,451 total occurrences were White.
38.3% or 4,329 total occurrences were Black.
1.9% or 219 total occurrences were of two or more races.
1.9% or 217 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
0.4% or 45 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
0.3% or 41 total occurrences were Asian.
Anagrams for Nettles »
telnets
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Nettles in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Nettles in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
Examples of Nettles in a Sentence
There was nothing to eat then. We ate linden leaves… and nettles. We used to grind these wild plants into flour, bake with it, and eat it. That’s what we ate during the famine.
Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies.
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