Definitions for Willow

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Willow wil·low

Spelling: [wil-oh]

IPA: /ˈwɪl oʊ/

Willow is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 32 anagrams from letters in Willow (illoww).

Definitions for Willow

noun

1. any tree or shrub of the genus Salix, characterized by narrow, lance-shaped leaves and dense catkins bearing small flowers, many species having tough, pliable twigs or branches used for wickerwork, etc. Compare willow family.
2. the wood of any of these trees.
3. Informal. something, especially a cricket bat, made of willow wood.
4. Also called willower, willy. a machine consisting essentially of a cylinder armed with spikes revolving within a spiked casing, for opening and cleaning cotton or other fiber.

verb (used with object)

1. to treat (textile fibers) with a willow.

Origin of Willow

before 900; Middle English wilwe, variant of wilghe, Old English welig; cognate with Old Saxon wilgia, Dutch wilg, Low German wilge

Examples for Willow

Two feet from the sawed-off stump of a third willow is the small foot-pump carousel Ray was sitting on when he shot himself.

A few feet from where we sit is the sawed-off stump of a third willow.

Jacob skinned them willow sticks, and skinned the old man, too.

There is only one, opposite, at the foot of the first willow.

The oak mentioned in this poem is gone, and a willow takes its place.

That green strip of willow is the edge of a quicksand where no one knows the depth.

The former VP candidate looked rail thin as she ran errands with her daughter willow in Studio City.

And the rest of the journey to willow Bluff was made almost in silence.

My wife (Susie Hariet) was pregnant with our second child (they have two children, daughter willow, 4, and son Aubrey, 2).

The Queen now owns just two Corgis: willow and Holly and two Dorgis: Candy and Vulcan.