They say that they had left their clothes and money on board; but who, in his senses, can believe that a boat freighted with so much wealth had but a withe of osiers as its cable?
Source: tatoeba (6212714)
Withe
//wɪθ//
Synonyms for "withe" (2 found)
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Translations
26 translations across 16 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- λύγος noun (twig or shoot)
Bulgarian
1 entries- тънка гъвкава пръчка noun (twig or shoot)
Czech
2 entries- houžev noun (twig or shoot)
- vrbový prut noun (twig or shoot)
Dutch
1 entries- wilgenteen noun (twig or shoot)
Finnish
3 entries- varpu noun (twig or shoot)
- vitsa noun (twig or shoot)
- vitsas noun (twig or shoot)
French
1 entries- brin d'osier noun (twig or shoot)
German
2 entries- Bindegerte noun (twig or shoot)
- Bindeweide noun (twig or shoot)
Italian
3 entries- ramoscello noun (twig or shoot)
- vimine noun (twig or shoot)
- virgulto noun (twig or shoot)
Latin
1 entries- vīmen noun (twig or shoot)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- svige noun (twig or shoot)
- vidje noun (twig or shoot)
Polish
2 entries- witka noun (twig or shoot)
- wić noun (twig or shoot)
Russian
3 entries- ви́ца noun (twig or shoot)
- лоза́ noun (twig or shoot)
- хворости́на noun (twig or shoot)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- gad noun (twig or shoot)
Slovak
1 entries- húžva noun (twig or shoot)
Swedish
1 entries- vidja noun (twig or shoot)
Welsh
1 entries- gwden noun (twig or shoot)
Sample sentences
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The boat belonging to the young men of Methymna, whose withe of osiers was eaten by your goats, was carried far out to sea by the violence of the gale, but at night the wind shifted and blew towards the shore, when the boat was driven against some sharp rocks and wrecked, everything on board it being lost.
Source: tatoeba (6213204)
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;[…]
Source: wiktionary
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.
Source: wiktionary
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