withe
noun
a willow twig or osier.
withes
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pluralof withe.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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
The stumps are called "pollards" and the trees "pollarded willows" whose discouraging task has been to grow a yearly crop of withes for the basket-makers; yet each spring finds them bristling with the new growth.
From Trees Worth Knowing by Julia Ellen Rogers
Tom and my grand-dad were bound with withes and tied together.
From Born to Wander A Boy's Book of Nomadic Adventures by Gordon Stables
As his eyes grew accustomed to the light, or rather the gloom, he made out that it was the interior of a large hut constructed of grass and withes.
From The Red Derelict by Bertram Mitford
