withe

withenoun/wɪθ/

• 1

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

  • 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;[…]
• 2

  A band of twisted twigs.

  • 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.
• 3

  An elastic handle to a tool to save the hand from the shock of blows.

• 4

  nauticaltransportAn iron attachment on one end of a mast or boom, with a ring, through which another mast or boom is rigged out and secured.

  • 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.

witheverb/wɪθ/

• 1

  To bind with withes.

  • As soon as the body of Deerslayer was withed in bark sufficiently to create a lively sense of helplessness, he was literally carried to a young tree, and bound against it, in a way that effectually prevented it from moving,
  • These frames are usually constructed of rough trees tightly withed and wedged together.
• 2

  To beat with withes.

  • Question. Did you hear of the circumstances of William Davis having been whipped on the 5th day of December, the day before the cutting took place? Answer Yes, sir; I did that evening, when he came home. Q. Did you examine where he had been withed? A. Yes, sir.
  • "He'll trim you up for tossing Suse that note," said Am Bayne to his own companion. / "Ye-es, and you'll get a withing, too," declared the other.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• wythe