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Little Abraham suffered cut after pruning prickly shrub (7)

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bramble

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(Other definitions for bramble that I've seen before include "Prickly plant yielding blackberries" , "Thorny bush" , "Blackberry shrub" , "Dog rose" , "Prickly hazard" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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