Willow is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for WILLOW in dictionary:

VERB:
• to clean textile fibres
• To open and cleanse, as cotton, flax, or wool, by means of a willow. See Willow, n., 2.
• open and clean (fibres) with rotating spikes
NOUN:
• a tree or shrub of temperate climates which typically has narrow leaves, bears catkins, and grows near water. Its pliant branches yield osiers for basketry, and the timber is traditionally used to make cricket bats.
• tree with thin flexible branches
• Any tree or shrub of the genus Salix, including many species, most of which are characterized often used as an emblem of sorrow, desolation, or desertion. \"A wreath of willow to show my forsaken plight.\" Sir W. Scott. Hence, a lover forsaken by, or having lost, the person beloved, is said to wear the willow.
• A machine in which cotton or wool is opened and cleansed by the action of long spikes projecting from a drum which revolves within a box studded with similar spikes; -- probably so called from having been originally a cylindrical cage made of willow rods, though some derive the term from winnow, as denoting the winnowing, or cleansing, action of the machine. Called also willy, twilly, twilly devil, and devil.
• any of numerous deciduous trees and shrubs of the genus Salix
• a textile machine having a system of revolving spikes for opening and cleaning raw textile fibers
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to clean textile fibers with a certain machine

Words related to WILLOW

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Words that contain WILLOW

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How to use WILLOW in a sentence

• Here, with his broad back against the rugged trunk of the willow tree, and half hidden by the soft ferns around him, sat a stout, brawny fellow, but no other man was there.
• Anyway, you go down Main Street till you come to a smell like rotten wood and then you turn in where the willow trees are and you come to an old sawmill.
• Willow could see a clearing and part of a roof line through the trees.
• When he thought of Willow during the day, he felt easy and excited at the same time.
• Old Man went back to the fire, and looked at the red willow sticks where his food had been, and it made him mad at his nose.
• Since she goes, when the buds are just ready to burst, In expanding its leaves, let the Willow be first.
• Removing her hat, she seated herself on the ground, where she had woven the willow basket for the fish.
• It appeared to be caught by some twisted willow roots so that the river could not sweep it away.
• He blew the horn beneath the willow and watched Joan cross the river in the punt.
• I knew what he said, I knew, But how can I tell you? I have to watch the willow bend in the wind.
• And we three have buried those other three In a soft, green, moss-covered, flower-lined grave at the foot of the willow tree.
• Both the broad and narrow-leafed willow continue, though the sweet willow has become very scarce.
• Small loosely plaited basket of willow for gathering locusts.
• The motor-car picnic to the Willow Creek Camp was a case in point.
• The Scotch-Canadian stood at the edge of a willow grove.
• Roots from the same willow had passed over the 3-inch pipes, and had entered and entirely stopped the first 4-inch drain, and had partially stopped the second.
• I used to love to dress you when you were a baby, and feed you, and take you out in the brown willow baby carriage like the real mothers.
• Her black hair was trailing in the wind as she waved a willow switch and shouted lustily at the cows.
• The next place was a small house made of willow poles set in the ground and plastered over with mud.
• Dodging under willow and scrub oak branches she came at last to the faint outline of an old trail made in the days when the precious timber of the swamp was guarded by armed men.
• They seemed to come from the direction of the grove of trees near the Willow Pond, and I stayed to listen.
• Poor Dan Duff might have said that his heart leaped right out of him, at sight now of the Willow Pool.
• At a distance, steadily approaching, appeared the outlet, light against the dark willow setting.

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