withe

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  1. noun A tough supple twig, especially of willow, used for binding things together; a withy.

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  • Additionally, the word "withe" can be substituted for the —  Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day
  • Those of you that had Palm Pilots in those days probably remember meeting complete strangers with similar Palm devices and sharing applications withe each other through the infrared port. —  LXer Linux News
  • I know they still use it alot over in the UK, but get withe times ... —  Fileforum
  • If a trait A exists in 10\% of a population of an assexually reproducing species and a trait B exists in 60\%? what is a disease that can be cure withe the help of stem cell reasearch? —  Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
  • The Easter egg project was one of four projects being done this year to connect St. Gemma students withe people "outside their box," Forder said. —  Classified Ads
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  1. Middle English, from Old English withthe; see wei- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Also wythe, and properly with; from Middle English withe, wythe, wythth, witthe, withthe, from Anglo-Saxon withthe, a variant of withig, a twig, withy: see withy.
  2. from withe, n.
 

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