English Dictionary

withe

noun

A flexible, slender twig or shoot, especially when used as a band or for binding; a withy. / A band of twisted twigs. / An elastic handle to a tool to save the hand from the shock of blows.

She wore a beautiful withe dress to the party.

意味（1）

A flexible, slender twig or shoot, especially when used as a band or for binding; a withy.

Perhaps indifferent to their social Rejection, he sets to work separating his Tree into Poles, Sticks, and Withes, and placing them wherever in the Structures of Dam or Lodge he feels they need to go.

意味（2）

A band of twisted twigs.

They deemed it little scathe indeed / That her coarse homespun ragged weed / Fell off from her round arms and lithe / Laid on the door-post, that a withe / Of willows was her only belt; / And each as he gazed at her felt / As some gift had been given him.

意味（3）

An elastic handle to a tool to save the hand from the shock of blows.

意味（4）

(nautical) 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.

Some short topgallant masts are rigged with a withe on the after part of the mast-head, through which a sliding-gunter royal-mast is run up, with its heel resting in a step on the topmast cap.

意味（5）

(architecture) A partition between flues in a chimney.