woodside

See also: Woodside

English

Etymology

wood +‎ -side

Noun

woodside (plural woodsides)

  1. The side of a wood; the land that borders a wood.
    • 1866, George Alfred Townsend, Campaigns of a non-combatant
      The action was commenced by emulous skirmishers, who crawled from the woodsides, and annoyed each other from coverts of ridge, stump, and stone heap.
    • 1907, Ethelwyn Wetherald, The Last Robin: Lyrics and Sonnets
      I wandered down the woodside way, / Where branching doors ope with the breeze, / And saw a little child at play / Among the strong and lovely trees.
    • 2008, M D Haviland, Lives of the Fur Folk
      In the long light evenings scores of rabbits grazed along the woodsides...
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