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windlestrae

windlestrae is the alternative form of windlestraw.

Meaning of windlestraw

Noun

windlestraw (countable and uncountable, plural windlestraws)

  1. (Scotland, UK, dialectal) A grass used for making ropes or for plaiting, especially Apera spica-venti.
    • 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

Forms of windlestrae

pluralwindlestraes

Questions about windlestrae

What is windlestrae the alternative form of?
Windlestrae is the alternative form of windlestraw.

Words near windlestrae in the dictionary

  1. Windlesham
  2. windless
  3. windlesses
  4. windlessly
  5. windlessness
  6. windlestrae
  7. windlestraes
  8. windlestraw
  9. windlestraws
  10. Windley
  11. Windleys

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