Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Same as prick-timber.
Wiktionary
- n. A shrub (Euonymus europaeus), the spindle tree.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Bot.) A shrub (Euonymus Europæus); -- so named from the use of its wood for goads, skewers, and shoe pegs. Called also
spindle tree .
Etymologies
- prick + wood, so named from the use of its wood for goads, skewers, and shoe pegs. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“On hearing this, Madame Cornouiller looked through the glass door of the salon at the little wild garden, where the prickwood and the lilies looked as though they had never known the pruning-knife and were likely never to know it.”
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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.
moosewood, ironwood, blackwood, sandalwood, milkwood, redwood, agarwood, buttonwood, agilawood, eaglewood, camwood, lemonwood and 71 more...
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