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wood

noun
/wʊd/US/wʉd/

Etymology

PIE word *dwóh₁ From Middle English wode, from Old English wudu, widu (“wood, forest, grove; tree; timber”), from Proto-West Germanic *widu, from Proto-Germanic *widuz (“wood”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weydʰh₁- (“to separate”). The spelling developed as it did in wool. Cognate with Dutch wede (“wood, twig”), Middle High German wite (“wood”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish ved (“wood”), Elfdalian wið (“wood, timber”), Faroese and Icelandic viður (“wood”), Norwegian Nynorsk ved (“wood, firewood”), vid (“wide, broad”). Further cognates include Irish fiodh (“a wood, tree”), Irish fid (“tree”) and Welsh gwŷdd (“trees”), from Proto-Celtic *widus (“wood”). Unrelated to Dutch woud (“forest”), German Wald (“forest”) (see English wold).

  1. derived from *h₁weydʰh₁-✻
  2. inherited from *widuz✻
  3. inherited from *widu✻
  4. inherited from wudu
  5. inherited from wode

Definitions

  1. The substance making up the central part of the trunk and branches of a tree. Used as a…

    The substance making up the central part of the trunk and branches of a tree. Used as a material for construction, to manufacture various items, etc. or as fuel.

    • This table is made of wood.
    • There was lots of wood on the beach.
    • O that men / (Canſt thou believe ?) ſhould be ſo ſtupid grown, / While yet the Patriark liv’d, who ſcap’d the Flood, / As to forſake the living God, and fall / To worſhip thir own work in Wood and Stone / For Gods !

  2. The wood from a particular species of tree.

    • Teak is much used for outdoor benches, but a number of other woods are also suitable, such as ipé, redwood, etc.
    • A few woods, such as cedar and redwood, are prized for their rugged naturalness and they age so beautifully that they are generally left unfinished.

  3. A forested or wooded area.

    • A wood beyond this moor was viewed as a border area in the seventeenth century.
    • He got lost in the woods beyond Seattle.
    • Macbeth ſhall neuer vanquiſh’d be, vntill / Great Byrnam Wood, to high Dunſmane Hill / Shall come againſt him.
  4. ›+ 15 more definitions

    1. Firewood.

      • We need more wood for the fire.
      • We toted in the wood and got the fire going nice and comfortable. Lord James still set in one of the chairs and Applegate had cabbaged the other and was hugging the stove.

    2. A type of golf club, the head of which was traditionally made of wood.

    3. A woodwind instrument.

    4. An erection of the penis.

      • That girl at the strip club gave me wood.

    5. Chess pieces.

      • […] White has nothing but a lot of frozen wood on the board while Black operates on the Q-side.

    6. To cover or plant with trees.

    7. To hide behind trees.

    8. To supply with wood, or get supplies of wood for.

      • to wood a steamboat or a locomotive
      • Many passengers would save a little by helping to “wood the boat,” i. e., by carrying wood down the bank and throwing it on the boat, a special ticket being issued on that condition.

    9. To take or get a supply of wood.

      • In this little Iſle of Mevis, more than twenty Years ago, I have remained a great time together, to Wood and Water and refreſh my Men […]

    10. Mad, insane, crazed.

      • And then he flue on hir as he were wood, / And on hir breeche did hack and foyne a-good.
      • And like a lion wood amongst them fares, Dealing his dreadfull blowes with large dispence
      • How the young whelpe of Talbots raging wood, / Did fleſh his punie-ſword in Frenchmens blood.

    11. A peckerwood.

      • He further stated that "I can't remember ever seeing a wood [white inmate] assault a nigger without being provoked".
      • The only thing is, even though there are ways to remain neutral, to just be a wood and not get caught up in the white supremacist gang stuff, you do have to take a side if things get bad.

    12. An English topographic surname for someone who lived in or near a wood.

    13. A surname originating as an occupation for a woodsman.

    14. A number of places in the United States

      A number of places in the United States:

    15. A place in the United Kingdom

      A place in the United Kingdom:

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Derived

Abbey Wood, aguila wood, alderwood, algumwood, aloeswood, amber wood cockroach, angelin wood, angely wood, applewood, arrowwood, Ashurst Wood, ashwood, Australian wood cockroach, babe in the wood, babe in the woods, backwood, backwoods, balsawood, barwood, basketwood, basswood, bay-wood, beechwood, beefwood, bentwood, birchwood, birch wood, bishop wood, bitterwood, Blackwood, bloodwood, blue wood sedge, bogwood, bow-wood, boxwood, brazilwood, Bretton Woods, brezel wood, briarwood, bring the wood · +489 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at wood. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at wood. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at wood

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA