See withe in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "They deemed it little scathe indeed / That her coarse homespun ragged weed / Fell off from her round arms and lithe / Laid on the door-post, that a withe / Of willows was her only belt; / And each as he gazed at her felt / As some gift had been given him.",
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"ref": "1862, James Fenimore Cooper, The Deerslayer, page 341:",
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"ref": "1888, Virgil Chittenden Hart, Western China: a journey to the great Buddhist centre of Mount Omei, page 132:",
"text": "These frames are usually constructed of rough trees tightly withed and wedged together.",
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"ref": "1890, Edward Augustus Samuels, With fly-rod and camera, page 184:",
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"ref": "1913, Newton Horace Winchell with Minnesota Historical Society, The weathering of aboriginal stone artifacts, no. 1, page 121:",
"text": "If it were withed by the aborigine it would have formed an effective and dangerous weapon, either in the chase of the large beasts with which he was contemporary or in war against his human enemies.",
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"ref": "1888 June 30, Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia., “State v. Davis.”, in The Southeastern reporter, volume 7:",
"text": "Question. Did you hear of the circumstances of William Davis having been whipped on the 5th day of December, the day before the cutting took place? Answer Yes, sir; I did that evening, when he came home. Q. Did you examine where he had been withed? A. Yes, sir.",
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"ref": "1901, Oren Frederic Morton, Winning or losing?: a story of the West Virginia Hills:",
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{
"ref": "1913, Richard Nye Price, Holston Methodism, volume 4, page 494:",
"text": "After I was on they commenced withing my horse to make him go faster, but I reined him up; ... They then commenced withing me around the shoulders, saying it would have a better effect than to whip the horse.",
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