Warwood
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Warwood is a noun meaning Wood used for military materiel, especially in the context of historical warfare.
Meaning
Wood used for military materiel, especially in the context of historical warfare.
Example Sentences
Sons of battle! Hunters of men! Raise high your war-wood! Hack away merry men, hack away.
1880, Gerald Manley Hopkins, "Spring and fall to a young child" in T.M. Flormata-Ballesteros, Speech and Oral Communication, page 144, →ISBN. By and by, nor spare a sigh Though worlds of warwood leafmeal lie
Wooden whales, or whales cut in profile out of the small dark slabs of the noble South Sea warwood, are frequently met with in the forecastles of American whalers. ...little canoes of dark wood, like the rich warwood of his native isle.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include woode, woodward, wald, warfaring, woodmote, wuderove.
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