withy

• There was a local saying that “the withy tree would buy the horse, while the oak would only buy the halter,” and I believe it to be perfectly true; for the uses of the withy are innumerable, and throughout its seven years' growth from one lopping to another there is always something useful to be had from it, with its final harvest of full-grown poles. —  Grain and Chaff from an English Manor
• "As I was telling, I got to where the withy-bed ends at the foot of the orchard below the house. —  The Mayor of Troy
• But I drew her behind the withy-bushes, and close down to the water, where it was quiet and shelving deep, ere it came to the lip of the chasm. —  Lorna Doone A Romance of Exmoor
• And as I peered through my little cranny, I saw a wreath of smoke still floating where the thickness was of the withy-bed; and presently Carver Doone came forth, having stopped to reload his piece perhaps, and ran very swiftly to the entrance to see what he had shot Sore trouble had I to keep close quarters, from the slipperiness of the stone beneath me with the water sliding over it. —  Lorna Doone A Romance of Exmoor
• A wild gooseberry may sometimes be seen growing out of the decayed 'touchwood' on the top of a hollow withy-pollard Wild apple trees, too, are not uncommon in the hedges The beautiful rich colour of the horse-chestnut, when quite ripe and fresh from its prickly green shell, can hardly be surpassed underneath the tree the grass is strewn with shells where they have fallen and burst. —  Adventures in Criticism

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