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▪ I. woodward, n. Hist.|ˈwʊdwəd|
Forms: see wood n.1; also 6 wodwarte, 7 wooddard.
[Late OE. wuduweard, f. wood n.1 + ward n.1 Survives as a surname in the forms Woodward and Woodard.]
The keeper of a wood; an officer of a wood or forest, having charge of the growing timber.
c1050Rect. Sing. Pers. §19 (Liebermann 452) Wuduwearde ᵹebyreð ælc windfylled treow. 1290Rolls of Parlt. I. 26/1 Wodewardos & proprios Forestar' ac Ministros Boscorum suorum predictorum. 1324–5Ibid. 422/2 Le Wodeward Sire Johan de Brakenbery. c1440Promp. Parv. 531/2 Wodewarde, or walkare in a wode for kepynge, lucarius. 1495Rolls of Parlt. VI. 466/1 The Office of Woodwarde within the Countie of Caernarvan. 1563Bp. Sandys in Strype Ann. Ref. (1709) I. xxxv. 356 [He] is now my tenant and my bailiff and woodward of my manour. 1570Levins Manip. 33/43 A Wodwarte, saltuarius. 1619T. Clay Chorol. Disc. 25 The Wood-ward is..an Officer of Charge, vnto whose care and trust, the custodie of the Lords Woods, and Receipt of the profits arising out of the same, are chiefly committed. 1638Whiting Albino & Bellama 109 The wooddards greene with Tyrian dye was dight. a1647Habington Surv. Worc. (Worc. Hist. Soc. Proc.) I. 454 Heerevppon dyd the Byshop of Worcester appoynt hys servant to bee hys woodward in Wenlond, and within the chase of Maluern. 1710Brit. Apollo III. No. 119. 4/1 James Worseley, Esq.; is made Woodward of the New Forest. a1722Lisle Husb. (1757) 361 My woodward assures me, that windy weather makes the sap rise much sooner in trees than it would otherwise do. 1791W. Gilpin Forest Scenery II. 20 The first officer [of the New Forest], under the lord-warden, is the woodward..Under the woodward are twelve regarders. 1871Daily News 21 Sept., The under-keeper of the Loughton and Theydon Walks, gave evidence..that the..Lord of the Manor of Loughton had enclosed a thousand acres of the public land,..and that his woodward..had cut down several thousand trees.
¶ Used for woodwose.
1488Acc. Ld. H. Treas. Scot. I. 82 A wodward of gold with a diamant. 1552Elyot's Dict., Cæpus, a beast in face like a Satyre, or woodward. 1566in J. Nicholl Comp. Ironmongers (1866) 90 Hewe Watts and Xp̃ofer Beckes, Wadwardes, or Ivemen.
b. As the title of an officer of the ‘Ancient Order of Foresters’.
1886Rules Court No. 2991 Foresters No. 22 The Woodwards shall visit the sick members..once a week.
Hence † ˈwoodwardship, the office of woodward.
1418in 41st Dep. Kpr.'s Rep. 700 [The] Wodewardships [of the commotes of Penthlyn and Thalepont, Merionethshire]. 1485Rolls of Parlt. VI. 379/1 The Office of Keping of the Parke of Haseley, with the Wodewardship. 1586–7in H. Hall Soc. Eliz. Age (1886) 242 Mr. Inkpen..sold him the woodwardship of that manor for 33/4. 1640in Jrnls. Ho. Comm. XLIII. 589/1 The..best Ship Timber there within the Wood-Wardship of Cesar Robert, Esquire.
▪ II. woodward, -wards, adv. rare.|ˈwʊdwəd(z|
[f. wood n.1 + -wardss.]
Towards or to the wood. † from the woodward: away from the wood.
1621Lady M. Wroth Urania 238 An other Lady..running from the Wood-ward. a1849J. C. Mangan Poems (1859) 371 Rury rode woodwards. 1893N. Gale Country Muse Ser. ii. 9 When the hush..brings the pigeons woodward. |