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brushwood|ˈbrʌʃwʊd|
[f. brush n.1]
1. Cut or broken twigs or branches; small wood.
1637Bury Wills (1850) 169, I owe Danyell Whitacre..for three loades of brushe wood. 1783Cowper Task iv. 381 Her scanty stock of brushwood, blazing clear. 1818Hawthorne Amer. Note-bks. (1879) II. 44 A load of dry brushwood.
fig.a1613Overbury Newes Chimney Corn. Wks. (1856) 199 Wit is brushwood, judgement timber: the one gives the greatest flame, the other yeelds the durablest heat. 1649G. Daniel Trinarch., Hen. V, ccxx, Lopt Royaltie, is ever to the Bold Attemptor, worth his pains; the Brush-wood's gold. 1682Dryden Relig. Laici 269 Vain traditions stopped the gaping fence..What safety from such brushwood helps as these?
2. Small growing trees and shrubs; thicket, underwood.
1732Berkeley Alciphr. i. §2 Land that is suffered to lie waste..will be overspread with brush-wood, brambles, thorns. 1814Scott Wav. xxxvi, Little dingles of stunted brushwood. 1835W. Irving Tour Prairies 235 They all three made off..through thickets and brushwood.
attrib.1855Russell The War xxviii. 250 Brushwood glades and remote dells. |