Meaning of withwind | Babel Free

Definitions

A kind of bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis).

countable, uncountable

Examples

“He bare a burden ybound with a broad list, / In a withewyndes wise ybounden about.”

“In both barley and wheat, in the deep rich land⟳, near Ilsley, in Oxfordshire, I observed, withwind with mighty grossness climbed up most of the halm to the top, no doubt⟳, but to the prejudice of the corn in many respects, which must be eat⟳ up before harvest⟳.”

“The increase⟳ of the withwind here was, without doubt⟳, occasioned by the laying down this ground only to one summer-seed after the hop clover was sown, when it had borne three or four crops of summer corn after its wheat crop; for by the winter ploughings, the offsets of the roots of weeds, and their seeds, were propagated.”

“Years ago, when I began to garden among the squitch and the withwind, I considered them the primal enemies of mankind.”

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