Sentence:  Every morning early , in the summer , we searched the trunks of the trees as high as we could reach for the locust shells , carefully detached their hooked claws from the bark where they hung , and stabled them , a weird faery herd , in an angle between the <WSD>high</WSD> roots of the tulip tree , where no grass grew in the dense shade . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  (literal meaning) being at or having a relatively great or specific elevation or upward extension (sometimes used in combinations like `knee-high')