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Withe vs Widdy - What's the difference?

withe | widdy |

As nouns the difference between withe and widdy

is that withe is a flexible, slender twig or shoot, especially when used as a band or for binding; a withy while widdy is (scotland) a rope or halter made of flexible twigs, or withes, as of birch or widdy can be .

As a verb withe

is to bind with s.

withe

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.

    • Verb

    (with)
  • To bind with s.
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  • To beat with s.
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    widdy

    English

    Etymology 1

    Compare (withy).

    Noun

    (widdies)
  • (Scotland) A rope or halter made of flexible twigs, or withes, as of birch.

    • Etymology 2

    Noun

    (widdies)
  • * 1877 —
    • I'm no saucy minx and giddy—
    Hussies such as them abound—
    But a clean and tidy widdy
    Well be-known for miles around.
    (Webster 1913)