windlestraw
A grass used for making ropes or for plaiting, especially Apera spica-venti.
Noun
- A grass used for making ropes or for plaiting, especially Apera spica-venti.
- Grey rocks did peep from the square moss, and stemmed / The struggling brook: tall spires of windlestrae / Threw their thin shadows down the rugged slope, / And nought but gnarlèd roots of ancient pines, / Branchless...
Origin
From windle + straw.