Withe

Definitions

1. A flexible, slender shoot or twig, especially when used as a band or for binding; a withy.
2. A band of twisted twigs.
3. An elastic handle to a tool to save the hand from the shock of blows.
4. 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.
5. Alternative spelling of wythe (“single section of bricks one unit thick”).
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6. Alternative spelling of wythe (“partition between flues in a chimney”).
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Equivalents

14 more languages

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Bosanskigadлоза

Češtinahoužev

Cymraeggwden

Suomivarpuvitsavitsas

Gàidhliggad

Hrvatskigadлоза

Latinaretortavīmen

Nederlandswilgenteen

Polskiwicwitka

Русскийви́цалозахворости́на

Slovenčinahúžva

Српскиgadлоза

Svenskavidja

Examples

“It was most ingeniously secured at vacant hours, by a withe twisted in the handle⟳ of the door, and stakes set⟳ against the window-shutters;[…]”

“They deemed it little scathe indeed / That her coarse homespun ragged weed / Fell off from her round arms and lithe / Laid on the door-post, that a withe / Of willows was her only belt; / And each as he gazed at her felt / As some gift had been given him.”

“Some short topgallant masts are rigged with a withe on the after part of the mast-head, through which a sliding-gunter royal-mast is run⟳ up, with its heel resting in a step on the topmast cap.”

“[…] single withe of brick laid flat in common bond reinforced vertically by 8" piers”

“[…] brick (single withe), one brick (two withes) or a brick-and-a-half thick. At the University of Virginia, Charlottesville , Thomas Jefferson demonstrated beautifully that a single withe of brick was adequate for[…]”

“[…] single-withe construction using concrete masonry units with the voids on the ends[…]”

“[…] single-withe, or barrier, wall. Multiple-withe walls are also constructed, and can consist⟳ of composite brick-block walls or cavity walls.”

“[…] single withe of fired brick or stone masonry, referred to in Turkish as[…]”

“... chimney space, and the joints of any two adjoining sets of flue linings shall be offset at least 7 inches. When there are more than two flues in a chimney, each third flue shall be separated from the others by a withe or division[…]”

“... flue intended for a heating furnace or boiler connection, or for a fireplace, shall be separated from other flues by such a withe. In hollow tile chimneys the withe may be of tile.”

“... flues should be separated by a 4-inch-wide brick spacer (withe) between them (fig. 170, A). The greater the difference in temperature between chimney gases and outside atmosphere, the better the draft.”

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