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woodside|ˈwʊdsaɪd|
Forms and etym.: see wood n.1 and side n.; also with gen. 4 wodessyde, 6 woodessyde.
The side or edge of a wood.
Chiefly in phr. with prep., as by or under the or a woodside = beside a wood; cf. bedside, roadside, wayside.
a1300Cursor M. 5734 Bi a wildrin wod side. a1300K. Horn 1024 (Camb.) His folk he dude abide Vnder wude side. 1375Barbour Bruce ix. 139 Thai that in the wodsyde weir. c1400Parce Michi 181 in 26 Pol. Poems 148 By dale, by doune, by wodes syde. c1430Lydg. Min. Poems (Percy Soc.) 110 So that ye wylle goo thys tyde Dowen to the chapylle under the wood syde. 1530Palsgr. 290/1 Woodessyde, oriere du boys. a1533Ld. Berners Huon vii. 18 They came to a lytyll woodsyde. 1658Cromwell Sp. 4 Feb. in Carlyle, I would have been glad to have lived under my woodside, to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than undertaken such a government as this. 1666Dryden Ann. Mirab. ccxlviii, Thus to some desert Plain, or old Wood-side, Dire Night-hags come. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. IV. 11 A buck, or male hare, is known by its..feeding farther from the wood-sides. 1818Hazlitt Eng. Poets ii. (1870) 47 You see a little withered old man by a wood-side opening a wicket. 1853G. Johnston Nat. Hist. E. Bord. I. 253 The woodside on the south is very swampy. 1865Kingsley Herew. xxxv, It will be as well for some of us to remain here; and, spreading our men along the wood-side, prevent the escape of the villains. 1895Atlantic Monthly Mar. 425 The snow may be gone..except..along fences and woodsides.
attrib.1863Cowden Clarke Shaks. Char. xvi. 402 Like a babbling woodside brook. 1871Palgrave Lyr. Poems 68 In the wood-side field. |