Definition of "withes" []

• Plural form of withe. (noun)
• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of withe. (verb)

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• "Each flue must be separated by smoke-proof "withes" or divisions, usually half a brick in thickness; connexion between them causes smoky chimneys."
• "Many horses were broken, and some men, but I lived at the last to the day when, at the changing of camp-sites in the pursuit of the meat in its seasons, our very babes, in baskets of willow-withes, were slung side and side on the backs of our horses that carried our camp - trappage and dunnage."
• "And of this, one thing is sure: if once we wove withes into baskets, the next and inevitable step would have been the weaving of cloth."