English Dictionary

withe

IPA（発音記号）

/wɪθ/

名詞

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.

日本語の意味

しなやかで細長い枝や若枝（束ねたり縛ったりする目的で用いられる、柳の枝としても知られる） / ねじり合わせた細枝を編んで作った帯状のもの / 工具の打撃から手を守るための、弾力性のある持ち手

She twisted a withe from young willow shoots to bind the bundle of reeds.

彼女は葦の束を縛るために、しなやかな柳の細枝を撚った。

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.

withes （ plural ）