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hazel-wood 1. A wood or thicket of hazel bushes.
c1374Chaucer Troylus v. 1174 From hasel-wode, there Ioly Robin pleyde. 1864Tennyson En. Ard. 7 A hazel-wood By autumn nutters haunted. 2. The wood or timber of the hazel.
1573–80Baret Alv. H 208 The magnificent and heroicall vertues of the haselwood. 1848J. G. Wilkinson Dalmatia & Montenegro I. 516 On the neighbouring mountains much hazelwood grows. †3. In phrase hazelwoods shake, or merely hazel-wood! (in Chaucer) app. = Of course. Obs.
c1374Chaucer Troylus iii. 841 (890) A ryng quod he, ye haselwodes shaken, Ye Nece myne þat ryng moste han a stone Þat myhte a dede man a-lyue maken. Ibid. v. 505 Ye haselwode þoughte þis Pandare, And to hym self ful sobrelich he seyde, God wot refreyden may þis hote fare. |