Woodflesh

Quick meaning: Woodflesh is a noun meaning (literary) The substance making up the central part of the trunk and branches of a tree, wood.

Meaning

(literary) The substance making up the central part of the trunk and branches of a tree, wood.

Example Sentences

He cuts a five-foot stave from a poplar tree, peels off the bark, and spends an afternoon with a heated screwdriver burning into the white woodflesh the entire Morse and semaphore codes.

Klausner stared in horror at the place where the blade of the axe had sunk into the woodflesh of the tree; then gently he took the axe handle, worked the blade loose and threw the thing to the ground.

The sun burned; the heat was all, consumed all—even the whacks of a twenty-eight-ounce framing hammer swatting a sixteen-penny nail one time two times and three through the ridge board and into the peak end of a rafter, even the rippling buzz of an electric saw chewing through woodflesh, even they fell short of cutting through this insatiable heat.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include wood, timber, lightwood, lumberwood, blackwood, firewood.

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