twig

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

TWIG, noun [Latin vigeo, with a prefix.] A small shoot or branch of a tree or other plant, of no definite length or size. The Britons had boats made of willow twigs, covered on the outside with hides.
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