instrumentiferous

Updated: May 25, 2025

For a half-pike that grew up high enough to reach the branches of one of these instrumentiferous trees, happened no sooner to touch them but, instead of being joined to an iron head, it impaled a stubbed broom at the fundament. Well, no matter, 'twill serve to sweep the chimney. Thus a partizan met with a pair of garden shears.

François Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5