Brewer's: Woodbine

The honeysuckle or beewort; or perhaps the convolvulus.

Where the bee Strays diligent, and with extracted balm Of fragrant woodbine loads his little thigh.

Phillips.

Shakespeare says-

So doth the woodbine the sweet honeysuckle Gently entwist.

Midsummer Night's Dream, iv. 1.

Gone where the woodbine twineth.
To the pawnbroker's, up the spout, where, in Quebec, “on cottage walls the woodbine may be seen twining.” (A correspondent of Quebec supplied this.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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