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spring-wood
[f. spring n.1 10 and 6 b.]
1. a. collect. Wood growing in a spring or copse of young saplings.
1523Fitzherb. Husb. §135 To kepe sprynge-wodde. 1893Heath Eng. Peas. 92 He was employed in cutting down small, or ‘spring-wood’..used for the purpose of making supports to the cuttings in the lead mines.
b. A copse or wood of springs or young trees.
1623in Fabric Rolls York Minster (Surtees Soc.) Gloss., One springwood called Hagsett, lately bought of Robert Greaves. a1722Lisle Husb. (1757) 362 For a general rule, newly weaned calves are less hurtful to newly cut spring⁓woods than any other cattle. 1815Farey Agric. Derbysh. II. 219 Spring-woods, as those are here called, which bear underwood as well as timber, and are cut at stated periods. 1828Carr Craven Gloss., Spring-woods, young woods fenced off for cattle, and allowed to spring. 1881Leicester Gloss. 252 Spring-wood, a wood of young trees.
2. A ring or layer of wood formed round a tree each spring.
1884Bower & Scott De Bary's Phaner. 475 It is..called an annual zone, annual layer, or annual ring, and its limiting layers just mentioned are called spring-wood and autumn-wood. 1885G. L. Goodale Physiol. Bot. (1892) 139 That [wood] which is produced earliest (spring wood) has somewhat larger ducts and wood-cells than that which is formed later (autumn wood). |