wisp

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | 120 words | Copyright

wisp handful, bunch, twisted band (of hay, etc.). XIV. corr. forms are only in WFris., but cf. synon. vars. s. v. WHISK.

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