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warwood - What does it mean?

Definition of 'warwood'

English

Noun

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  • Wood used for military materiel, especially in the context of historical warfare
  • * 1849 , Herman Melville, Mardi
  • *:Sons of battle! Hunters of men!
  • *:Raise high your war-wood !
  • *:Hack away merry men, hack away.
  • * 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
  • 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.
  • *1880 , , "Spring and fall to a young child" in T.M. Flormata-Ballesteros, Speech and Oral Communication , page 144, ISBN 9715740693.
  • *:By and by, nor spare a sigh
  • *:Though worlds of warwood leafmeal lie