windlestraw

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A grass used for making ropes or for plaiting, especially Apera spica-venti. Scotland,UK,countable,dialectal,uncountable
    — 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.

词形变化

windlestraws plural windlestrae alternative

词源

From windle + straw.
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