Dictionary entry

Withe

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Withe (?; 277), n. [OE. withe. ����. See Withy, n.] [Written also with.]

1. A flexible, slender twig or branch used as a band; a willow or osier twig; a withy.

2. A band consisting of a twig twisted.

3. (Naut.) An iron attachment on one end of a mast or boom, with a ring, through which another mast or boom is rigged out and secured; a wythe. R. H. Dana, Jr.

4. (Arch.) A partition between flues in a chimney.