Druxy

Quick meaning: Druxy is an adjective meaning (of wood, obsolete outside dialects) Having decayed spots or streaks of a whitish colour; rotten, decayed.

Meaning

(of wood, obsolete outside dialects) Having decayed spots or streaks of a whitish colour; rotten, decayed.

Example Sentences

After the gale, the tree has had sufficient vitality to continue its growth, and so enfold its crippled stem in a new sheath of sound wood. Fig. 10 represents decayed or “druxy” knots. Sometimes such knots are met with embedded in fairly sound wood, but in most cases, the effects of the decay run far down into the parent stem.

[…] and as the lapse of time required for seasoning would allow the decomposition of very bad druxy knots to display itself, there seems to be more reason for attaching importance to the use of seasoned timber in the framework of ships. […] all unprepared timber, let it be ever so sound, free from sap, druxy knots, […] or ground shakes.

Word Forms

• druxey

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include dozy, decayed, rotten, drabbish, doty, doddered.

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