单词 | brushwood |
释义 | brushwoodn. 1. Cut or broken twigs or branches; small wood. ΘΚΠ 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. 2. Small growing trees and shrubs; thicket, underwood. ΘΚΠ 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1616 |
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