Dictionary Entry
willow
willow is a 6-letter English word with 5 senses as noun and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 14 · 5 senses
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- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
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.
- 3transitive verb
To open and cleanse, as cotton, flax, or wool, by means of a willow. See Willow., 2.
- 4noun
a textile machine having a system of revolving spikes for opening and cleaning raw textile fibers
- 5noun
any of numerous deciduous trees and shrubs of the genus Salix
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