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† ˈsherwood Obs.
Also 6 shirwood.
[Perh. from the proper name Sherwood in the Robin Hood ballads, taken as a poetic synonym for greenwood.]
A grove; also, greenwood.
1562T. Phaer æneid viii. Y iij b, The shirwood great [L. lucum ingentem], where saulf defence, and free resort, Duke Romulus vptooke. 1652Loveday tr. Calprenede's Cassandra i. 167 He saw on his right hand near the river side a grove of Sherwood. |