Bugwood
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Bugwood is a noun meaning (US, Appalachia) Cutover scrap lumber.
Meaning
(US, Appalachia) Cutover scrap lumber.
More Meanings
- Acacia verticillata
Example Sentences
Besides these two trees, which are the most general form of vegetation met with, may be found the briglow, bugwood, lapunya, lancewood, cork, box, and bloodwood, the last so named from its light red sap, which oozes in a thick stream
Horton and the others had hardly assimilated the lessons of Wilder when the Grundy County bugwood cutters struck. Bugwood, knotty crooks of trees which can be found in any cut-over forest, is unfit for sawing into lumber, but it was harvested for use om distilling wood alcohol
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include boxwood, scrapwood, backwoods, cutover, scrog, clogwood.
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