Noun
A grass used for making ropes or for plaiting, especially Apera spica-venti.
Usage- Scotland
- UK usage
- Countable
- dialectal
- Uncountable
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More examples (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.