Withe vs Swithe - What's the difference?
withe | swithe |
A flexible, slender twig or shoot, especially when used as a band or for binding; a withy.
* 1997': 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. — Thomas Pynchon, ''Mason & Dixon
(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.
(architecture) A partition between flues in a chimney.
To bind with s.
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To beat with s.
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instantly, quickly, speedily, rapidly, strongly; very
As a noun withe
is a flexible, slender twig or shoot, especially when used as a band or for binding; a withy.As a verb withe
is to bind with s.As an adverb swithe is
.withe
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*swithe
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(er)- That thou doest, do thou swithe . — Wyclif, (John xiii. 27)
- And he yede and opened the tomb, and there flew out an adder right hideous to see; the which as swithe flew about the city and the country, and soon after the city sank down. — The Travels of Sir John Mandeville