Withe

/wɪθ/ · noun

Meaning

A flexible, slender shoot or twig, especially when used as a band or for binding; a withy..

Definitions by Sense

1. A flexible, slender shoot or twig, especially when used as a band or for binding; a withy.
2. A band of twisted twigs.
3. An elastic handle to a tool to save the hand from the shock of blows.
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.
5. (masonry) Alternative spelling of wythe (“single section of bricks one unit thick”).
6. (architecture) Alternative spelling of wythe (“partition between flues in a chimney”).
7. (transitive) To bind with withes.
8. (transitive) To beat with withes.

Example Sentences

It was most ingeniously secured at vacant hours, by a withe twisted in the handle of the door, and stakes set against the window-shutters;[…]

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.

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.

[…] single withe of brick laid flat in common bond reinforced vertically by 8" piers

[…] brick (single withe), one brick (two withes) or a brick-and-a-half thick. At the University of Virginia, Charlottesville , Thomas Jefferson demonstrated beautifully that a single withe of brick was adequate for[…]

[…] single-withe construction using concrete masonry units with the voids on the ends[…]

[…] single-withe, or barrier, wall. Multiple-withe walls are also constructed, and can consist of composite brick-block walls or cavity walls.

[…] single withe of fired brick or stone masonry, referred to in Turkish as[…]

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• withes
• withing
• withed

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