Meaning

A wooden ship..

Definitions by Sense

1. A wooden ship.
2. (obsolete) Control over and responsibility for a wooded area.

Example Sentences

Apparently Marconi could not give his ideas on the subject a practical shape himself but Taylor and Young of the Naval Research Laboratory (U.S. A.) seemed to have made use of his ideas when late in 1922, they used a 5m wavelength CW transmitter to detect a woodship.

Also, another woodship from America with my cousin who is like a brother to me will come to these islands.

Land could be available for a fleet base and armament depot, but the only possible site for an armament wharf is on Munganno Point (where the woodship wharf is already located).

An unknown woodship carrying 15 to 40ft (4.3-12.2 m) logs .of over 4 ft (1.2m) girth was wrecked in January 1804.

His successors, Earls of Glocester, held the manor of the Abps. of Canterbury, on condition that they should be stewards at the Abps. installments, and grant them the woodship of their children; but this tenure, after long dispute, was compounded.

There were two other parties of messieurs going into the woods at the same time, and they were having contraverbial discussions by the bushel over every sort of thing, you know, in association with woodship.

Charmed by Aunt Matilda, affable and cunning, hilltop household find themselves at The Great War's end in command of a corporation that had its origin in Grandfather Pawley's woodship and William's groggy head.

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