greenheartn.

Brit.

/ˈɡriːnhɑːt/, U.S.

/ˈɡrinˌ(h)ɑrt/

Forms: see green adj. and n.¹ and heart n.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: green adj., heart n.

Etymology: < green adj. + heart n.

a. The hard, heavy, greenish heartwood of the tree Chlorocardium rodiei (see sense 2(b)), whose uses include cabinetmaking and fishing rods, and which is especially valued for shipbuilding owing to its durability and resistance to marine borers. Also: the similar wood of any of several other tropical and South American trees.

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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [noun] > other woods of West Indies and Central America

guaiacum1533

guaiac1558

lignum vitae1594

sweetwood1607

green ebony1665

princewoodc1665

alligator wood1696

pimento wood1712

greenheart1719

mahoea1726

galimeta-wood1756

determa1769

bullet-wood1843

cocobolo1849

lancewood1858

silver-balli1858

yari-yari1858

Honduras rosewood1860

sabicu1866

amarant1909

1719 W. Gordon Representation Miserable State Barbadoes 27 There were about Thirty Sail of Vessels, employ'd in bringing Mastick, Fustick, Greenheart, and other Dying and Hard Wood, and Turtle.

1738 J. Bennett Two Lett. Sugar Colonies & Trade App. 63 That Care be taken to preserve a sufficient Quantity of hard Timber..such as Green Heart, Bully Tree, Mastick, Fustick, Purple Heart, and the like.

1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 151 Green-heart, a wood imported from the West Indies, used for the pins of blocks.

1825 C. Waterton Wanderings in S. Amer. i. 5 The green-heart, famous for hardness and durability; the hackea, for its toughness.

1863 Times 19 Mar. 14/2 In the main and lower decks, teak, mahogany, and greenheart are used almost exclusively.

1875 J. D. Heath Compl. Croquet-player 26 Handles are generally made of ash, but greenheart and Canadian rock elm are more springy and elastic.

1910 Field & Stream Feb. 942/2 We feel more satisfied to look friend or opponent in the face, if we are the possessor of a single-piece rod, either of greenheart, noibwood, split bamboo, or bethebara.

1959 Mariner's Mirror 45 231 To the Ceres we fitted a greenheart hog-piece and an oak archboard.

1999 T. Quinn & P. Felix Last of Line 29/1 The first big breakthrough came in the nineteenth century, when greenheart began to be used for rod-making.

b. A fishing rod made of this wood.

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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > rod > [noun] > types of rod

pole1577

telescope pole1675

fly-rod1684

dopper1688

whipper1688

bag-rod1787

telescope rod1820

salmon rod1841

greenheart1869

spinning-rod1870

loop-rod1885

roach pole1892

trunk-rod1893

sea-rod1902

1869 G. C. Scott Fishing in Amer. Waters ii. v. 211 The rod is twenty feet long, and not more than three fourths the weight of a greenheart or hickory of the same length.

1894 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 67 The rod..was a 13-foot single-handed greenheart with one splice.

1920 O. W. Smith Casting Tackle & Methods i. 16 You will make no mistake in investing in a greenheart.

1939 ‘G. Orwell’ Coming up for Air iv. iii. 246 I'd always pined for a split-cane rod as a boy—it's a little bit dearer than a greenheart.

2006 N.Z. Herald (Nexis) 27 May (Sport section) In New Zealand, greenhearts were still available in tackle shops in the 1930s.

2. Any of several tropical and South American trees used for their hard durable timber; esp. (a) the cogwood tree of Jamaica, Ziziphus chloroxylon; (b) a large evergreen laurel tree of northern South America, Chlorocardium rodiei (cf. sense 1a); (c) (more fully West Indian greenheart) a small tree, Colubrina ferruginosa (family Rhamnaceae), of Jamaica (also called snakewood).bastard, false greenheart: see the first element.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > non-British timber trees > [noun] > of South America or West Indies > greenheart

greenheart1756

sipeera-tree1769

bebeeru-

1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. ii. 187 The Greenheart or Cogwood Tree... It is generally esteemed one of the best timber-woods in the island.

1769 E. Bancroft Ess. Nat. Hist. Guiana 333 They contentedly recur to the use of Sipera, or Green-Hart-tree Apples.

1796 J. G. Stedman Narr. Exped. Surinam II. xxviii. 335 The brown-heart is in hardness of the same consistency as the purple-heart, and the green-heart.

1811–12 W. J. Titford Sketches Hortus Botanicus Americanus explan. Pl. VII. Jamaica Laurel, Greenheart, or Cogwood Tree (L. chloroxylon), is esteemed the best timber wood in Jamaica, and used always for the cogs or rollers in sugar mills.

a1832 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) XX. 6/2 The timber of the Green Hart, or Sipiera tree, is very valuable.

1839 M. J. Higgins Ess. (1875) xvii Moras, greenhearts, and silk~cotton trees, rearing their heads far above the other giants of the forest.

1874 F. G. D. Bedford Sailor's Pocket Bk. ix. 291 The Morra and Greenheart of British Guiana.

1920 O. W. Smith Casting Tackle & Methods i. 15 True greenheart grows only in British Guiana, where immense forests of the trees are to be found.

1978 Post–Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) 7 Dec. 1/4 The indigenous purpleheart and greenheart trees were of such hard wood that the pilgrims ruined their saws trying to clear them.

2005 C. Tudge Secret Life Trees vi. 134 But most famous of all the Lauraceae timbers comes from the greenheart (O. rodiaei), the pride of Guyana.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	greenheart
释义	greenheartn. Brit. /ˈɡriːnhɑːt/, U.S. /ˈɡrinˌ(h)ɑrt/ Forms: see green adj. and n.¹ and heart n. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: green adj., heart n. Etymology: < green adj. + heart n. 1. a. The hard, heavy, greenish heartwood of the tree Chlorocardium rodiei (see sense 2(b)), whose uses include cabinetmaking and fishing rods, and which is especially valued for shipbuilding owing to its durability and resistance to marine borers. Also: the similar wood of any of several other tropical and South American trees. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [noun] > other woods of West Indies and Central America guaiacum1533 guaiac1558 lignum vitae1594 sweetwood1607 green ebony1665 princewoodc1665 alligator wood1696 pimento wood1712 greenheart1719 mahoea1726 galimeta-wood1756 determa1769 bullet-wood1843 cocobolo1849 lancewood1858 silver-balli1858 yari-yari1858 Honduras rosewood1860 sabicu1866 amarant1909 1719 W. Gordon Representation Miserable State Barbadoes 27 There were about Thirty Sail of Vessels, employ'd in bringing Mastick, Fustick, Greenheart, and other Dying and Hard Wood, and Turtle. 1738 J. Bennett Two Lett. Sugar Colonies & Trade App. 63 That Care be taken to preserve a sufficient Quantity of hard Timber..such as Green Heart, Bully Tree, Mastick, Fustick, Purple Heart, and the like. 1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 151 Green-heart, a wood imported from the West Indies, used for the pins of blocks. 1825 C. Waterton Wanderings in S. Amer. i. 5 The green-heart, famous for hardness and durability; the hackea, for its toughness. 1863 Times 19 Mar. 14/2 In the main and lower decks, teak, mahogany, and greenheart are used almost exclusively. 1875 J. D. Heath Compl. Croquet-player 26 Handles are generally made of ash, but greenheart and Canadian rock elm are more springy and elastic. 1910 Field & Stream Feb. 942/2 We feel more satisfied to look friend or opponent in the face, if we are the possessor of a single-piece rod, either of greenheart, noibwood, split bamboo, or bethebara. 1959 Mariner's Mirror 45 231 To the Ceres we fitted a greenheart hog-piece and an oak archboard. 1999 T. Quinn & P. Felix Last of Line 29/1 The first big breakthrough came in the nineteenth century, when greenheart began to be used for rod-making. b. A fishing rod made of this wood. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > rod > [noun] > types of rod pole1577 telescope pole1675 fly-rod1684 dopper1688 whipper1688 bag-rod1787 telescope rod1820 salmon rod1841 greenheart1869 spinning-rod1870 loop-rod1885 roach pole1892 trunk-rod1893 sea-rod1902 1869 G. C. Scott Fishing in Amer. Waters ii. v. 211 The rod is twenty feet long, and not more than three fourths the weight of a greenheart or hickory of the same length. 1894 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 67 The rod..was a 13-foot single-handed greenheart with one splice. 1920 O. W. Smith Casting Tackle & Methods i. 16 You will make no mistake in investing in a greenheart. 1939 ‘G. Orwell’ Coming up for Air iv. iii. 246 I'd always pined for a split-cane rod as a boy—it's a little bit dearer than a greenheart. 2006 N.Z. Herald (Nexis) 27 May (Sport section) In New Zealand, greenhearts were still available in tackle shops in the 1930s. 2. Any of several tropical and South American trees used for their hard durable timber; esp. (a) the cogwood tree of Jamaica, Ziziphus chloroxylon; (b) a large evergreen laurel tree of northern South America, Chlorocardium rodiei (cf. sense 1a); (c) (more fully West Indian greenheart) a small tree, Colubrina ferruginosa (family Rhamnaceae), of Jamaica (also called snakewood).bastard, false greenheart: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > non-British timber trees > [noun] > of South America or West Indies > greenheart greenheart1756 sipeera-tree1769 bebeeru- 1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. ii. 187 The Greenheart or Cogwood Tree... It is generally esteemed one of the best timber-woods in the island. 1769 E. Bancroft Ess. Nat. Hist. Guiana 333 They contentedly recur to the use of Sipera, or Green-Hart-tree Apples. 1796 J. G. Stedman Narr. Exped. Surinam II. xxviii. 335 The brown-heart is in hardness of the same consistency as the purple-heart, and the green-heart. 1811–12 W. J. Titford Sketches Hortus Botanicus Americanus explan. Pl. VII. Jamaica Laurel, Greenheart, or Cogwood Tree (L. chloroxylon), is esteemed the best timber wood in Jamaica, and used always for the cogs or rollers in sugar mills. a1832 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) XX. 6/2 The timber of the Green Hart, or Sipiera tree, is very valuable. 1839 M. J. Higgins Ess. (1875) xvii Moras, greenhearts, and silk~cotton trees, rearing their heads far above the other giants of the forest. 1874 F. G. D. Bedford Sailor's Pocket Bk. ix. 291 The Morra and Greenheart of British Guiana. 1920 O. W. Smith Casting Tackle & Methods i. 15 True greenheart grows only in British Guiana, where immense forests of the trees are to be found. 1978 Post–Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) 7 Dec. 1/4 The indigenous purpleheart and greenheart trees were of such hard wood that the pilgrims ruined their saws trying to clear them. 2005 C. Tudge Secret Life Trees vi. 134 But most famous of all the Lauraceae timbers comes from the greenheart (O. rodiaei), the pride of Guyana. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1719
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