dial. [? WASH a. Cf. WATER-BOUGH.] (See quot. 1823.)
1612. T. Taylor, Comm. Titus i. 16. 321. Their care is but to cut off the wash boughs of sin, but they leaue the bole, and stumpe standing.
1823. Moor, Suffolk Words, Wash-boughs, the lower straggling branches of trees.
