Woodbind

Related to Woodbind: woodbine

Wood´bind`


n.1.Woodbine.
A garland . . . of woodbind or hawthorn leaves.
- Chaucer.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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Some in their honds bare boughes shene, Some of laurer, and some of okes kene, Some of hauthorne, and some of woodbind, And many mo which I had not in mind.
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Other words whose d-less forms became permanently established in English subsequent to the loss of the final plosive /d/ include lawn (16th c.) (< laund < OF launde), scan (15th c.) (< scand < L scandere), tine (15th c.) (< OE tind) or woodbine (16th c.) (< woodbind < OE wudubinde).
"Now you see it, now you don't" once more: the loss and insertion of dental stops in medieval English
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