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单词 brushwood
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brushwoodn.

Brit. /ˈbrʌʃwʊd/, U.S. /ˈbrəʃˌwʊd/
Etymology: < brush n.1 + wood n.1
1. Cut or broken twigs or branches; small wood.
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society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > wood as fuel > [noun]
woodc888
trouse978
stickc1175
spray1297
spraya1300
firewood1377
lopc1420
billet1465
buchette1507
bag-wood1525
bavin1573
brushment1591
brushwood1616
burning-wood1642
firebote1661
chump1680
lop-wood1693
brush1699
burn-wood1701
lightwood1705
shravel1732
billet-wood1759
hedge-wood1785
pine knot1791
1637 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 169 I owe Danyell Whitacre..for three loades of brushe wood.
1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 381 Her scanty stock of brushwood, blazing clear.
1818 N. Hawthorne Amer. Note-bks. (1879) II. 44 A load of dry brushwood.
figurative.1616 T. Overbury et al. His Wife, with New Elegies (7th impr.) Newes from Chimney Corner sig. Q6 Wit is Brushwood, Iudgment Timber: the one giues the greatest flame, the other yeelds the durablest heat.a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry V ccxx, in Poems (1878) IV. 156 Lopt Royaltie, is ever to the Bold Attemptor, worth his pains; the Brush-wood's gold.1682 J. Dryden Religio Laici 17 Vain Traditions stopt the gaping Fence..What Safety from such brushwood-helps as these?
2. Small growing trees and shrubs; thicket, underwood.
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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] > brushwood, scrub, or underwood
ronea1300
underwooda1325
rammel1338
brushetc1380
scroga1400
bushailec1400
frithing1429
brushal1430
brushc1440
ronec1440
thevec1440
garsil1483
shroga1500
cablish1594
south-bois1598
undergrowth1600
frith1605
hand timber1664
subbois1664
urith1671
brushwood1732
bush-wood1771
underbrush1775
slop1784
woodiness1796
scrub1805
shag1836
chaparral1845
underbush1849
underscrub1870
sand-brush1871
buck-brush1874
bush1879
horizontal scrub1888
tangle-wood1894
shin-tangle1905
1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron I. i. ii. 9 Land that is suffered to lie waste..will be overspread with brush-wood, brambles, thorns.
1814 W. Scott Waverley II. xiii. 203 Little dingles of stunted brushwood . View more context for this quotation
1835 W. Irving Tour on Prairies 235 They all three made off..through thickets and brushwood.
attributive.1855 W. H. Russell War xxviii. 250 Brushwood glades and remote dells.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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