withywind
English
Noun
withywind (plural withywinds)
- Alternative form of withwind
- 1878, Thomas Hardy, Return of the Native:
- The reddleman suffered the wound and went on: “He is a man who notices the looks of women, and you could twist him to your will like withywind, if you only had the mind.”
- 2006, Tony Anderson, Life on the levels: voices from a working world, page 104:
- lf you've got a bad withywind patch then you've got a bare patch in a few years.
- 2009, Roger Lonsdale, The New Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century Verse, →ISBN, page 265:
- The snow-white withywind just blows, and dies, Nor does the lily boast much longer life; But flower-gentles, clad in holy hue, Do everlastingly that hue preserve.
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