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Gulliver’s Travels vocabulary
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withy
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Definition:a tough flexible branch of a willow tree used for tying, binding or for baskets
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“[...] Sacrifices were made to it—kine, and sometimes even wee bairns, flung into the water in withy baskets.”
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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I took 8 or 9 men with me and marched to their houses, which I found very mean; and their doors made fast with withes.
William Dampier. A Continuation of a Voyage to New Holland, Etc. in the Year 1699
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He once deceived her by telling her that his strength could be overcome by tying him with green withes; and yet he snapped them like cobwebs.
Kersey and Lydia Graves. The Bible of Bibles (1879)
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They were all tied by the neck with strong withes fastened to a beam; they held their food between the claws of their fore feet, and tore it with their teeth.
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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