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单词 spring wood
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spring woodn.

Brit. /ˈsprɪŋ wʊd/, U.S. /ˈsprɪŋ ˌwʊd/
Forms: see spring n.1 and wood n.1
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: spring n.1, wood n.1
Etymology: < spring n.1 + wood n.1
1.
a. Young trees grown or growing in a spring (spring n.1 22a(a)); the wood from these trees. Now historical and rare.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > [noun] > wood growing in specific place
spring wood?1523
water-wood1600
bottom timber1834
?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xliiiv To kepe springe wood.
1607 T. Procter Worke conc. Mending High-waies sig. C4v These frames of wood and hurdles, or wattles made of spring wood, are of smal price.
1614 G. Markham 2nd Bk. Eng. Husbandman ii. ii. 53 A Lord or Master of much vnder-wood, which is indeede young spring-wood of all kindes.
1717 Daily Courant 14 Jan. A considerable Number of large Timber Trees, and some good Spring Wood.
1796 J. Fox Gen. View Agric. Glamorgan 48 Where any large tract of land is intended to be appropriated for planting spring wood, it should be divided into portions.
1820 Morning Post 8 May It comprises about 50 acres of spring wood.
1872 R. Heath in Golden Hours Jan. 21/1 He was employed in cutting down small, or ‘spring-wood’, as he phrased it, used for the purpose of making supports to the cuttings in the lead mines.
2003 Times Higher Educ. Suppl. (Nexis) 6 June 22 Small trees were cut back to the stump on a 15 to 20-year cycle to generate ‘spring’ wood for charcoal.
b. A copse or wood of young trees or springs (spring n.1 23c). Now historical and rare (English regional (northern and midlands) in later use).
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the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > wood or assemblage of trees or shrubs > [noun] > planted, cultivated, or valued > coppice or grove
hurst822
grove889
wood bough?c1225
wood lay?c1225
wood lind?c1225
wood rise?c1225
spring1396
firth?a1400
berwec1440
spring?c1475
grovet1504
coppice1538
copsewood1543
sherwood1562
hewt1575
copse1578
grove-crop1582
berrie1591
low wood1591
spinney1597
spinet1604
spring wood1607
roughet1616
oart1690
toft1706
under-grove1731
bosket1737
busket1803
1607 T. Procter Worke conc. Mending High-waies sig. D4 First to make Iron with a third part of wood-coales, where spring woods are, and may be spared for the benefit of the owners.
1623 in J. Raine Fabric Rolls York Minster (1859) Gloss. 354/2 One springwood called Haggsett, lately bought of Robert Greaves.
a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1757) 362 For a general rule, newly weaned calves are less hurtful to newly cut spring-woods than any other cattle.
1794 R. Lowe Gen. View Agric. Nottingham 90 The above woods..are spring woods, and cut about every fifteen years.
1813 J. Farey Gen. View Agric. Derbyshire II. x. 219 Spring-woods, as those are here called which bear Underwood as well as Timber, and are cut at stated periods.
1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Spring-woods, young woods fenced off for cattle, and allowed to spring.
1881 S. Evans Evans's Leicestershire Words (new ed.) 252 Spring-wood, a wood of young trees.
2003 M. Jones in I. D. Rotherham et al. Working & Walking in Footsteps of Ghosts I. 54 Two other woods belonging to the Abbey, including a spring wood of fifteen acres.
2. Wood produced by a tree during the spring, which forms the less dense inner part of an annual ring (also called early wood). Also: woody shoots, or parts of woody shoots, produced by a tree or shrub during the spring. Cf. summer wood n. at summer n.1 and adj. Compounds 3.
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the world > plants > part of plant > part of tree or woody plant > wood > [noun] > ring or layer > formed earlier or later
summer wood1783
spring wood1840
autumn wood1863
latewood1872
early wood1893
1840 Farmer's Mag. Oct. 304/1 The fruit of next year is always produced by the young spring wood of the present year.
1863 Engineer 27 Feb. 122/3 Although the rings become smaller, yet the quantity or bulk of the porous spring wood does not diminish at the same ratio.
1885 G. L. Goodale in A. Gray & G. L. Goodale Bot. Text-bk. (ed. 6) II. i. iii. 139 That [wood] which is produced earliest (spring wood) has somewhat larger ducts and wood-cells than that which is formed later (autumn wood).
1944 W. Morgan in R. Greenhalgh Pract. Builder ix. 318/1 Each annual ring consists of springwood and summerwood, the latter generally being more dense, harder, and darker in colour, than the springwood.
2006 Functional Ecol. 20 205/2 Within an annual growth ring of the ring-porous Fraxinus languinosa, Kitin et al...found vessel-to-vessel contact and pitting within springwood and within summerwood, but very little contact between spring and summerwood vessels.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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