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  • noun Plural form of oakwood.

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Examples

  • And then on again through the Folde; and through the Fenmarch, where to their right great oakwoods climbed on the skirts of the hills under the shades of dark Halifirien by the borders of Gondor; but away to their left the mists lay on the marshes fed by the mouths of Entwash.

    The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954

  • A trace of his relation to the oak may be found in the oakwoods of the Janiculum, the hill on the right bank of the Tiber, where Janus is said to have reigned as a king in the remotest ages of Italian history.

    The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion 1922

  • A trace of his relation to the oak may be found in the oakwoods of the Janiculum, the hill on the right bank of the Tiber, where Janus is said to have reigned as a king in the remotest ages of Italian history.

    Chapter 16. Dianus and Diana 1922

  • A turn in the lane throws open a view of rich hayfields and pasture, with the river winding in and out under a ridge of oakwoods; much the same view, perhaps, as

    Highways and Byways in Surrey Eric Parker 1912

  • Alfold, Ifold, Durfold, Dunsfold, Chiddingfold, and other "folds" lie among oakwoods and ploughlands that once were oakwoods; the railway runs nowhere nearer than seven miles from the heart of the woods, and in the woods the timbered cottages stand apart, old and tranquil.

    Highways and Byways in Surrey Eric Parker 1912

  • There, in the roads that ran through the oakwoods and hazel copses, it was the heat of summer.

    Highways and Byways in Surrey Eric Parker 1912

  • To thee, Pan of the cliff, three brethren dedicate these various gifts of their threefold ensnaring; Damis toils for wild beasts, and Pigres springes for birds, and Cleitor nets that swim in the sea; whereof do thou yet again make the one fortunate in the air, and the one in the sea and the one among the oakwoods.

    Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology Anonymous 1902

  • A trace of his relation to the oak may be found in the oakwoods of the Janiculum, the hill on the right bank of the Tiber, where Janus is said to have reigned as a king in the remotest ages of Italian history.

    The Golden Bough James George Frazer 1897

  • The bear still lurked in the remotest thickets; packs of wolves still issued forth at night to ravage the herdsman's folds; wild boars wallowed in the fens or munched acorns under the oakwoods; deer ranged over all the heathy tracts throughout the whole island; and the wild white cattle, now confined to Chillingham Park, roamed in many spots from north to south.

    Early Britain Anglo-Saxon Britain Grant Allen 1873

  • We went the length of a twelve-mile ridge between Ickleworth and Hillford, over high commons, with immense views on both sides, and through beech-woods, oakwoods, and furzy dells and downs spotted with juniper and yewtrees -- old picnic haunts of mine, but Mr. Pollingray's fresh delight in the landscape made them seem new and strange.

    The Gentleman of Fifty George Meredith 1868

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