withes
- plural of withe.
Example Sentences
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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
I did not know what those hickory withes meant, but surmised that some jealous trapper had put them there as a warning for me to get out.
From Fifty Years a Hunter and Trapper Autobiography, experiences and observations of Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock during his fifty years of hunting and trapping. by Woodcock, Eldred Nathaniel
Not Churchill's wreathes, but hick'ry withes will do, To twine thy brows, and lace thy jacket too; Leave thy friend R——, we've had enough of him, For abler Pilots live the Bark to trim.
From The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume II (of III) by Freneau, Philip
Finally he swam underneath the flock, caught several by the feet, and tied them to his belt with withes of basswood bark.
From Indian Legends Retold by Eastman, Elaine Goodale
