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windlestraws

windlestraws is the plural 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

Questions about windlestraws

What is windlestraws the plural of?
Windlestraws is the plural of windlestraw.

Words near windlestraws in the dictionary

  1. windlessly
  2. windlessness
  3. windlestrae
  4. windlestraes
  5. windlestraw
  6. windlestraws
  7. Windley
  8. Windleys
  9. windlike
  10. windline
  11. windlines

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