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Willow
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- 1 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."
- 2 A census-designated place in Alaska.
- 3 A town in Oklahoma.
- 4 A town in Wisconsin.
- 1 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. countable, uncountable
"[…] 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."
- 2 a textile machine having a system of revolving spikes for opening and cleaning raw textile fibers wordnet
- 3 The wood of these trees. countable, uncountable
- 4 any of numerous deciduous trees and shrubs of the genus Salix wordnet
- 5 A cricket bat. colloquial, countable, uncountable
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- 6 The baseball bat. countable, slang, uncountable
- 7 A rotating spiked drum used to open and clean cotton heads. countable, uncountable
- 1 To open and cleanse (cotton, flax, wool, etc.) by means of a willow. transitive
- 2 To form a shape or move in a way similar to the long, slender branches of a willow. intransitive
"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."
Etymology
From Middle English wilwe, welew, variant of wilghe, from Old English welig, from Proto-West Germanic *wilig, from Proto-Germanic *wiligaz, from Proto-Indo-European *welik- (compare (Arcadian) Ancient Greek ἑλίκη (helíkē), Hittite 𒌑𒂖𒆪 (welku, “grass”)), from *wel- (“twist, turn”).
From Middle English wilwe, welew, variant of wilghe, from Old English welig, from Proto-West Germanic *wilig, from Proto-Germanic *wiligaz, from Proto-Indo-European *welik- (compare (Arcadian) Ancient Greek ἑλίκη (helíkē), Hittite 𒌑𒂖𒆪 (welku, “grass”)), from *wel- (“twist, turn”).
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