windlestrawとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

windle +‎ straw

名詞

windlestraw (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 windlestraws)

1. (Britain, Scotland, 方言) A grass used for making ropes or for plaiting, especially Apera spica-venti.
   • 1816, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Alastor

     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 and blasted, clenched with grasping roots / The unwilling soil.