Word Finder - woods

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The substance making up the central part of the trunk and branches of a tree. Used as a material for construction, to manufacture various items, etc. or as fuel.

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There was lots of wood on the beach.

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The wood of a particular species of tree.

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Teak is much used for outdoor benches, but a number of other woods are also suitable, such as ipé, redwood, etc.

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A forested or wooded area.

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He got lost in the woods beyond Seattle.

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Firewood.

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We need more wood for the fire.

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A type of golf club, the head of which was traditionally made of wood.

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A woodwind instrument.

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An erection of the penis.

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That girl at the strip club gave me wood.

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Chess pieces.

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To cover or plant with trees.

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To hide behind trees.

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To supply with wood, or get supplies of wood for.

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to wood a steamboat or a locomotive

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To take or get a supply of wood.

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(sometimes offensive, of a person) A peckerwood.

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(usually with plural construction, sometimes with singular construction) A dense collection of trees, usually one covering a relatively small area; usually smaller than a forest.

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These woods are part of the Campbell property.

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For chemical behavior purposes, trees in full leaf (coniferous or medium-dense deciduous forests).

I saw some flowers in the woods and went to look at them.

You went into the woods alone?

I threw the hen into the woods, so the fox will probably get it anyway.

I promise I won't go into the woods alone again.

They walked through the woods arm in arm.

I wish I could explore the woods.

Once into the woods, she began to relax.

Try to stay out of the woods.

A car was parked on the far side of the woods, about a hundred yards from the house.

You're just grumpy because you have to go to court instead of playing in the woods with us.

We read and studied out of doors, preferring the sunlit woods to the house.

These things would pass away; here were lakes and woods and broad daisy-starred fields and sweet-breathed meadows, and they shall endure forever.

She took off, noting where she entered the woods, and using a tall Sycamore tree as a trail marker.

Out there in the woods lay a multitude of plants she wanted to see, and no slithering reptile was going to stand in her way.

At one point, Tiger Woods got a dime for every box of Wheaties cereal with his photo on it, while the farmer was paid only a nickel for the wheat in that same box—and the farmer still made a profit.

The woods do not yield another such a gem.

Thoreau's fame will rest on Walden; or, Life in the Woods (Boston, 1854) and the Excursions (Boston, 1863), though he wrote nothing which is not deserving of notice.

On the conquest of a country the lands were apportioned by the nishanjis, who first computed the tithe revenueof each village, its population, woods, pasturage, &c.; and divided it into the three classes of fiefs (khas, ziamet and timar), or into vakilf (pious endowments) or pasturage.

Nux vomica, gamboge, caoutchouc, cardamoms, teak and other valuable woods and gums are among the natural products.

A little north of the centre the state is traversed from northwest to south-east by the extensive forest known as the " Big Woods," in which also oak occurs most frequently.

A few rivers in the south drain into the Mississippi through Iowa, while a smaller area in the extreme north is drained through the Lake of the Woods and Rainy Lake into Hudson Bay.

Keating, Narrative of an Expedition to the Sources of the St Peter (Minnesota) River, Lake Winnepeek, Lake of the Woods, &c....

It was very pleasant out in the shady woods, and we all enjoyed the picnic very much.

Was that a farmer's noon horn which sounded from beyond the woods just now?

I formerly saw the raccoon in the woods behind where my house is built, and probably still heard their whinnering at night.

You only need sit still long enough in some attractive spot in the woods that all its inhabitants may exhibit themselves to you by turns.

Once, when berrying, I met with a cat with young kittens in the woods, quite wild, and they all, like their mother, had their backs up and were fiercely spitting at me.

In the fall the loon (Colymbus glacialis) came, as usual, to moult and bathe in the pond, making the woods ring with his wild laughter before I had risen.

They come rustling through the woods like autumn leaves, at least ten men to one loon.

But now the kind October wind rises, rustling the leaves and rippling the surface of the water, so that no loon can be heard or seen, though his foes sweep the pond with spy-glasses, and make the woods resound with their discharges.

It was very exciting at that season to roam the then boundless chestnut woods of Lincoln--they now sleep their long sleep under the railroad--with a bag on my shoulder, and a stick to open burs with in my hand, for I did not always wait for the frost, amid the rustling of leaves and the loud reproofs of the red squirrels and the jays, whose half-consumed nuts I sometimes stole, for the burs which they had selected were sure to contain sound ones.

Like the wasps, before I finally went into winter quarters in November, I used to resort to the northeast side of Walden, which the sun, reflected from the pitch pine woods and the stony shore, made the fireside of the pond; it is so much pleasanter and wholesomer to be warmed by the sun while you can be, than by an artificial fire.

As for the axe, I was advised to get the village blacksmith to "jump" it; but I jumped him, and, putting a hickory helve from the woods into it, made it do.

Some of my friends spoke as if I was coming to the woods on purpose to freeze myself.

Glancing down at her sandaled feet, it occurred to her that she was hardly dressed for a walk in the woods.

He could have forced her into the car... could have drug her into the woods.

His greatest interest obviously lay some distance down that path into the woods.

Why else would he be so concerned about her excursions in the woods?

After one last look around to see if she was being watched, she started into the woods.

Why don't you protect those fantastic legs with some jeans and I'll take you to explore the woods.

I wanted to explore the woods, not set a world record for travel.

She wanted to trek the woods so badly that she had put them both in jeopardy.

The floors were pale stone, the walls something called latte, the furniture in light woods and cream, highlighted by teal and lemon pillows and tasteful throws.

It never grows in wet boggy places, never in woods, or on or about stumps of trees.

The forest products of the state include fine woods, rubber, ipecacuanha, sarsaparilla, jaborandi, vanilla and copaiba.

At this time all this inland region was considered a part of Sao Paulo, but in 1748 it was made a separate capitania and was named Matto Grosso ("great woods").

The whole effect of the grim castle, the silvery stream and the verdant woods makes one of the most striking scenes in Belgium.

Owing to the beautiful woods which surround it and its medicinal waters Cleves has become a favourite summer resort.

Tramways connect Alkmaar with Egmond and with the pretty summer resort of Bergen, which lies sheltered by woods and dunes.

At its falls from Lake of the Woods is one of the greatest and most easily utilized water-powers in the world, and from falls lower down the river electric power for the city of Winnipeg is obtained.