woode

English

Noun

woode (countable and uncountable, plural woodes)

  1. Obsolete form of wood.
    • 1570, Roger Ascham, The Schoolmaster:
      In woode and stone, not the softest, but hardest, be alwaies aptest, for portrature, both fairest for pleasure, and most durable for proffit.
    • 1613, Gervase Markham, The English Husbandman:
      The second member or part of the Plough, is called the skeath, and is a peece of woode of two foote and a halfe in length, and of eight inches in breadth, and two inches in thicknesse: it is driuen extreamly hard into the Plough-beame, slopewise, so that ioyned they present this figure.

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