withe

About 0.03 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A flexible, slender shoot or twig, especially when used as a band or for binding; a withy.
2. noun A band of twisted twigs.
3. noun An elastic handle to a tool to save the hand from the shock of blows.
4. noun An iron attachment on one end of a mast or boom, with a ring, through which another mast or boom is rigged out and secured.
5. noun Alternative spelling of wythe (“single section of bricks one unit thick”).
6. noun Alternative spelling of wythe (“partition between flues in a chimney”).
7. verb To bind with withes.
8. verb To beat with withes.

Similar words

withy with winding withywind widdy wisp twist whisp wicker spindling

Often followed by

the a and of my or all his me

Word family

with withes