windlestraw — قاموس الإنجليزية

اسم

1. A grass used for making ropes or for plaiting, especially Apera spica-venti.

   الاستعمال

   • Scotland
   • استعمال بريطاني
   • معدود
   • dialectal
   • غير معدود

   أمثلة

   أمثلة إضافية (1)

   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.