WITHE
\wˈɪð], \wˈɪð], \w_ˈɪ_ð]\
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A flexible, slender twig or branch used as a band; a willow or osier twig; a withy.
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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; a wythe.
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To bind or fasten with withes.
By Oddity Software
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A flexible, slender twig or branch used as a band; a willow or osier twig; a withy.
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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; a wythe.
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To bind or fasten with withes.
By Noah Webster.
By James Champlin Fernald
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with, or w[=i]th, WITHY, with'y, n. a flexible twig, esp. of willow: a band of twisted twigs: an elastic handle to a tool to save the hand from the shock of blows: a boom-iron.--adj. WITHY (with'i or w[=i]'thi), made of withes: like withes, flexible. [A.S. withthe, a form of withig, a withy; Ice. vidhir, Ger. weide, willow.]
By Thomas Davidson
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