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ˈredwood, n.1
Also red wood, red-wood.
1. a. Wood of a red colour, obtained from many different trees, chiefly of tropical regions; formerly applied esp. to such as were used for dyeing.
1619W. Phillip tr. Schouten's Relation Wonderfull Voiage 37 In each Canoe..there lay two whole broad planckes of fayre redde wood. 1634Copy Court Roll (Wakefield), One milne..used for the grinding of red wood. 1640Jrnl. Ho. Comm. II. 33 The sole importing of the Red-wood. 1686Lond. Gaz. No. 2186/1, 150 thousand pounds of Red Wood. 1722Ibid. No. 6040/7 Red Wood or Guinea Wood the Hundred Weight,..one Pound ten Shillings. 1725Sloane Jamaica II. 185 Red-wood. This is very red, more porous, lax, and lighter than any of the foregoing woods. 1812J. Smyth Pract. of Customs (1821) 285 Cam Wood, a fine red wood of Africa and of the Brazils, principally used in turnery... Cam Wood and Red Wood are considered in London as one and the same article. 1857R. Tomes Amer. in Japan vi. 135 The jamana..is very like the red-wood of Brazil and Mexico. 1887C. A. Moloney Forestry W. Afr. 139 Redwood comes chiefly from Old Calabar, gives a stronger colour than barwood, and is worth a little more. 1957Handbk. Softwoods (Forest Prod. Res. Lab.) 42 Timber of this species [sc. Pinus sylvestris] imported from the Continent is commonly called redwood, red deal, or simply ‘red’. 1963[see kapur].
b. = compression wood s.v. compression 6.
1825Jamieson, Red-Wood, the name given to the reddish, or dark-coloured, and more incorruptible, wood found in the heart of trees. 1925[see compression wood].
2. A name given to various trees having a red wood, esp. a tall Californian timber-tree, Sequoia sempervirens.
1716Petiveriana iii. 4/1 Red Wood [of Barbadoes]. 1756P. Browne Jamaica 278 Red-wood or Iron-wood. This is a small but beautiful tree. 1819Warden United States III. 97 In the lower parts are found oak, elm,..red-wood, sumach. 1850B. Taylor Eldorado I. vii. 47 A few miles west of the Pueblo there is a large forest of redwood, or Californian cypress. 1883Harper's Mag. Jan. 210/2 When the glade began to narrow into a cañon the redwoods appeared—magnificent specimens..rising straight two hundred feet.
3. attrib., as redwood bark, redwood fir, redwood lumber, redwood tree, etc.
1745P. Thomas Jrnl. Anson's Voy. 168 There are several others [trees] among which is one we call'd the Red-Wood-Tree, or Iron-Wood, from its great solidity. 1825J. Nicholson Operat. Mechanic 84 The arms are of redwood fir, 6 inches square. 1883Harper's Mag. July 815/2 Extensive yards of the attractive redwood lumber. 1885B. Harte Maruja ii, A quaint stockade..thatched with redwood bark. |