Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A willow holt; a plantation of willows for basket-making.
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Examples
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7 Vinea est prima, ... secundo loco hortus inriguus, tertio salictum, quarto oletum, quinto pratum, sexto campus frumentarius, septimo silva caedua, octavo arbustum, nono glandaria silva.
A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate 1885
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I conclude with the learned Stephanus’s note upon these kind of trees, after he has enumerated the universal benefit of the _salictum_: _nullius enim tutior reditus, minorisve impendii, aut tempestatis securior_.
Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees John Evelyn 1663
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