1. n. The substance making up the central part of the trunk and branches of a tree. Used as a material for construction, to manufacture various items, etc. or as fuel.
This table is made of wood.
There was lots of wood on the beach.
2. n. The wood of a particular species of tree.
Teak is much used for outdoor benches, but a number of other woods are also suitable, such as ipé, redwood, etc.
3. n. A forested or wooded area.
He got lost in the woods beyond Seattle.
4. n. Firewood.
We need more wood for the fire.
5. n. (golf) A type of golf club, the head of which was traditionally made of wood.
6. n. (music) A woodwind instrument.
7. n. (slang) An erection of the penis.
That girl at the strip club gave me wood.
8. n. (chess, slang) Chess pieces.
9. v. To cover or plant with trees.
10. v. (reflexive, intransitive) To hide behind trees.
11. v. To supply with wood, or get supplies of wood for.
to wood a steamboat or a locomotive
12. v. (intransitive) To take or get a supply of wood.
13. adj. (obsolete) Mad, insane, crazed.
14. n. (US, sometimes offensive chiefly prison slang) A peckerwood.
1. n. A branching and bony structure on the head of deer, moose and elk, normally in pairs. They are grown and shed each year. (Compare with horn, which is generally not shed.)
While hiking in the woods, I found an antler from a deer.
1. n. (musical instruments) Any (typically wooden) musical instrument that produces sound by the player blowing into it, through a reed, or across an opening. Woodwind instruments include the recorder, flut
woodwind instrument
woodwind instrument
1. n. (music) A musical instrument in which sound is produced by blowing against an edge or by vibrating a thin piece of wood or metal known as the reed, and in which the pitch is governed by the resonant f
1. n. Trees in a forest regarded as a source of wood.
2. n. (outside, North America) Wood that has been pre-cut and is ready for use in construction.
3. n. A heavy wooden beam, generally a whole log that has been squared off and used to provide heavy support for something such as a roof.
the timbers of a ship
4. n. Material for any structure.
5. n. (firearms, informal) The wooden stock of a rifle or shotgun.
6. n. (archaic) A certain quantity of fur skins (as of martens, ermines, sables, etc.) packed between boards; in some cases forty skins, in others one hundred and twenty. Also timmer, timbre.
7. interj. Used by loggers to warn others that a tree being felled is falling.
8. v. To fit with timbers.
timbering a roof
9. v. (transitive, obsolete) To construct, frame, build.
10. v. (falconry, intransitive) To light or land on a tree.
11. v. (obsolete) To make a nest.
12. v. To surmount as a timber does.
13. n. misspelling of timbre
Woodland
1. n. (Géographie) Paroisse civile d'Angleterre située dans le district de Teignbridge.
2. n. (Géographie) Paroisse civile d'Angleterre située dans le district de Durham.
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