windlestraw — 英語辞典

名詞

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

   用法

   • Scotland
   • 英国での用法
   • 可算
   • dialectal
   • 不可算

   例文

   その他の例文 (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.