windlestraw
English
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Noun
windlestraw (countable and uncountable, plural windlestraws)
- (UK, Scotland, dialect) A grass used for making ropes or for plaiting, especially Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template..
- 1816, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Alastor
- Grey rocks did peep from the square moss, and stemmed / The struggling brook: tall spires of windlestrae / Threw their thin shadows down the rugged slope, / And nought but gnarlèd roots of ancient pines, / Branchless and blasted, clenched with grasping roots / The unwilling soil.
- 1816, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Alastor