withe
Americannoun
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withes
plural
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a willow twig or osier.
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any tough, flexible twig or stem suitable for binding things together.
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an elastic handle for a tool, to lessen shock occurring in use.
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a partition dividing flues of a chimney.
verb (used with object)
noun
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a strong flexible twig, esp of willow, suitable for binding things together; withy
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a band or rope of twisted twigs or stems
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a handle made of elastic material, fitted on some tools to reduce the shock during use
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a wall with a thickness of half a brick, such as a leaf of a cavity wall, or a division between two chimney flues
verb
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Etymology
Origin of withe
before 1000; Middle English, Old English withthe; akin to Old Norse vīthir withy, Gothic kunawida chain, Latin viēre to weave together
Example Sentences
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The agency has also upgraded security cameras and renovated bathrooms and showers at its Indian River facility in northeastern Ohio in compliance withe federal Prison Rape Elimination Act, Gies said.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 2, 2020
If you’re able to do so, Best Buy will be required to provide you withe benefits even if you are not technically married to your spouse.
From Encyclopedia.com ● Sep. 19, 2018
Tomorrow somenone will come out withe a new drug, and the medical community will change the standards again.
From New York Times ● Nov. 15, 2017
The boilerplate language, which ethics experts say dates to the Civil War, was not closely contemplated when negotiating the deal, according to federal officials familiar withe discussions.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 14, 2016
When the host of Maev came to Ardcullin, the withe upon the pillar-stone was found and brought to Fergus to decipher it.
From Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race by T. W. (Thomas William) Rolleston
James Branch Cabell, who well knows the uses of buttered willow withes, will understand its magic.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then he fenced the whole from stem to stern with willow withes to be a defence against the wave, and strewed much brush thereon.
From Time Magazine Archive
With a rapidity she could not have equalled at another time, she unfastened the withes with which the Seneca was bound, and as rapidly returned to the side of Eagle's-Wing.
From The Frontiersmen by Gustave Aimard
Then he cut two willow withes and dipped one end of each into his bottle of fox scent.
From Swamp Cat by James Arthur Kjelgaard
When I stepped outside of the tent next morning, there were three or four bunches of hickory withes standing against the guy ropes of the tent.
From Fifty Years a Hunter and Trapper Autobiography, experiences and observations of Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock during his fifty years of hunting and trapping. by Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock
That's the laddiebuck," said Ump, "an' he ought to be withed.
From Dwellers in the Hills by Melville Davisson Post
"Let up, you painted riptyles—let up!" cried Hurry, too hard pressed to be particular about the terms he used; "isn't it enough that I am withed like a saw-log that ye must choke too!"
From The Deerslayer by James Fenimore Cooper
We withed three others to mine, setting sail with two bits of driftwood for paddles.
From D'Ri and I by Irving Bacheller
You see, they make the scaffolding out of young trees withed together, and use them over and over.
From Seeing France with Uncle John by Anne Warner
As soon as they were floating, the logs were withed together and moored in sections.
From D'Ri and I by Irving Bacheller
“These young men, they were withing feet of their lives being taken,” Barnes told the congregation.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 27, 2023
The E.P.A. produced a memo from the agency’s ethics office saying that Mr. Pruitt’s living arrangements did not violate federal gift rules because the rate was withing “reasonable market value.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 2018
If no one claims him that player withing 48 hours, then the team can trade him anywhere.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2016
Chelsea have to cross the line and if City, or anyone can get withing touching distance then it might get nervous yet.
From BBC ● Mar. 23, 2015
You may take it from me that naval warfare becomes impossible withing the radius of a Bruce-Partington's operation.
From The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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