Material used for weaving.
1 They are redwings and thrushes; every withy - bed is full of them.
2 It is, however, the plantations of withy or osier that are most important.
3 One would like to know whether the Willow-lad's powers perished with the withy - bed .
4 I leaned mine against a hollow withy pollard, and called 'ready.'
5 She had a fit of hysterics that twisted her like a withy round a faggot.
6 Compared with your sceptre, is just a mere withy .
7 A similar situation has arisen in other institutions which are dealing like the NRH, mainly withy patients.
8 The hut was a small, round structure made from sticks and withy , and covered in stretched deerhide.
9 The slender, withy boys, as supple and weak as cats, had apparently the nine lives of those animals.
10 Coming home over the downs, just upon twilight, Temple and I saw Saddlebank carrying a long withy upright.
11 You went past the withy bed?
12 On her arm she carried a withy basket, in which lay several butter-rolls in a nest of wet cabbage-leaves.
13 He'd landed on a coarsely woven withy mat, half collapsing the structure of poles and round cross-pieces supporting it.
14 The dog gave chase- Irushedfor my gun, which was some yards off, placed against a hollow withy tree.
15 Still further down, where the wood ends in scattered bushes and withy - beds , the level shore of the shallow mere succeeds.
16 A wild gooseberry may sometimes be seen growing out of the decayed 'touchwood' on the top of a hollow withy - pollard .
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