windlestraw — Dizionario inglese

Sostantivo

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

   Uso

   • Scotland
   • uso britannico
   • numerabile
   • dialectal
   • non numerabile

   Esempi

   Altri esempi (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.