What does bugwood mean?
Bugwood means (US, Appalachia) Cutover scrap lumber..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(US, Appalachia) Cutover scrap lumber..
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
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
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Bugwood means (US, Appalachia) Cutover scrap lumber..
Common synonyms include prickly mimosa, prickly Moses, star acacia.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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
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