withywind

English

Noun

withywind (plural withywinds)

1. Alternative form of withwind
   • 1878, Thomas Hardy, Return of the Native:

     The reddleman suffered the wound and went on: “He is a man who notices the looks of women, and you could twist him to your will like withywind, if you only had the mind.”

   • 2006, Tony Anderson, Life on the levels: voices from a working world, page 104:

     lf you've got a bad withywind patch then you've got a bare patch in a few years.

   • 2009, Roger Lonsdale, The New Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century Verse, →ISBN, page 265:

     The snow-white withywind just blows, and dies, Nor does the lily boast much longer life; But flower-gentles, clad in holy hue, Do everlastingly that hue preserve.