Willowname

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  A female given name from English of modern usage.

  • Before he died her father had run a nursery just outside the town. He loved trees so much he'd even named his two daughters and one son after them: Willow, Ashley and Oak.
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  A census-designated place in Alaska.

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  A town in Oklahoma.

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  A town in Wisconsin.

willownoun/ˈwɪl.əʊ/

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  Any of various deciduous trees or shrubs in the genus Salix, in the willow family Salicaceae, found primarily on moist soils in cooler zones in the northern hemisphere.

  • […] and through the middle of this forest, from wall to wall, ran a winding line of brilliant green which marked the course of cottonwoods and willows.
  • And willows, willow-herb, and grass, / And meadowsweet, and haycocks dry, / No whit less still and lonely fair / Than the high cloudlets in the sky.
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  The wood of these trees.

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  ball-gamescricketgamesA cricket bat.

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  slangball-gamesbaseballgamesThe baseball bat.

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  A rotating spiked drum used to open and clean cotton heads.

willowverb/ˈwɪl.əʊ/

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  To open and cleanse (cotton, flax, wool, etc.) by means of a willow.

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  To form a shape or move in a way similar to the long, slender branches of a willow.

  • Willowing over the rough cobbles of the little pier stepped a thin, bent figure, adorned with a silver nanny-goat's beard and bobbling eyes interrupted by the rim of a pair of pince-nez.
  • Joe’s impulse was to sketch her, with her shadow willowing beyond her on the mouse-gray paving-stone; but his left fist, obeying instinct, remained clenched behind his back […]