Anagrams of: ALDERBUCKTHORN

• a thorny Eurasian bush with plumlike fruits

• erect and almost thornless American hawthorn with somewhat pear-shaped berries

• Restraint (act or result of holding back, device that restrains)

• The projection or loop, on the thill of a vehicle, to which a strap of the harness is attached, to hold back a carriage when going downhill, or in backing.

• The strap or part of the harness so used.

• a shrub or shrubby tree of the genus Rhamnus; fruits are source of yellow dyes or pigments

• any shrub or small tree of the genus Bumelia

• an Old World plantain with long narrow ribbed leaves widely established in temperate regions

• Any animal with a thorny back, especially marine animals, such as:

• A woman over a certain age (variously 26 or 30) who has never married, older than a spinster.

• a partition that divides a ship or plane into compartments

• a sovereign prince of the former ruling house of Austria

• a wrestling hold in which the opponent's head is locked between the crook of your elbow and the side of your body

• an excavator whose shovel bucket is attached to a hinged boom and is drawn backward to move earth