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birdlime

English birdlime meaning in English  •  birdlime का अर्थ अंग्रेजी में
Noun
  • An extremely adhesive viscid substance, usually made of the middle bark of the holly, by boiling, fermenting, and cleansing it. When a twig is smeared with this substance it will hold small birds which may light upon it. Hence: Anything which insnares.
v. t.
  • To smear with birdlime; to catch with birdlime; to insnare.
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