Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A red dyewood obtained from Sierra Leone and Angola, Africa. It is the product of the tree Baphia nitida, and is found in commerce as a rough red powder, produced by rasping the logs. Its coloring matter is insoluble in water, but yields about 23 per cent, to alcoholic infusion. It is used for dyeing cotton yarns the brilliant orange-red known as mock Turkey red or barwood red.
Wiktionary
- n. The red wood of a leguminous African tree, Baphia nitida, used as a dyewood and for ramrods, violin bows and turner's work.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A red wood of a leguminous tree (Baphia nitida), from Angola and the Gabon in Africa. It is used as a dyewood, and also for ramrods, violin bows and turner's work.
Etymologies
- bar + wood? (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Woodshades fencing comes in a variety of styles and barwood, cedar, and redwood colors.”
Consumer Reports: International Builders' Show Product Preview: Woodshades Composite Fencing
“Other exports are caoutchouc, ebony (of which the best comes from the Congo), and camwood or barwood (a Tephrosia).”
“Camwood, red sanders wood, barwood, and other dye woods, are found in great quantities in many parts of Africa.”
“Sappan wood is £4 higher than last year; barwood has risen cent per cent; logwoods are £2 per ton higher.”
“Gaboon barwood is another variety of this dyewood which is imported from the west coast of Africa, in straight flat pieces, from three to, five feet in length; the average annual import being about 2,000 tons, of the value of £4 a ton.”
“A woaded color, for example, is only fast in respect of the vat indigo which it contains, and yet how frequent is the custom to unite with the indigo such dyes as barwood, orchil, and indigo-carmine, the fugitive character of which I have pointed out.”
“There are a number of dye-stuffs or colouring matters like alizarine, logwood, fustic, barwood, cutch, resorcine green, etc., which have no affinity for the cotton fibre, and of themselves will not dye it.”
The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student
“The traffic consists chiefly of ivory, barwood (a wood much used in dyeing), and indiarubber.”
“I bees go just now to seek for ivory, and ebony, and sl-a --- w'at you call him? barwood. ”
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See The Wood For The Trees
Tree names that end in -wood. Anything ending in -wood that only refers to the wood, eg. applewood, firewood, etc. shall not be planted in this garden.
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