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单词 orewood
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orewoodn.

Brit. /ˈɔːwʊd/, U.S. /ˈɔrˌwʊd/, Welsh English /ˈɔːwʊd/
Forms: 1500s–1700s orewood, 1600s orwood, 1900s– horewood (Welsh English (Pembrokeshire)).
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: ore n.5, wood n.1
Etymology: < ore n.5 + wood n.1 Compare oarweed n.It is unclear whether the following represents an early example of the same word or of oarweed n. (perhaps a low-stress variant), or whether it is a parallel formation (perhaps compare wad n.1):1587 J. Hooker Chron. Ireland 183/1 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) II The common people..had a long time liued on limpets, orewads, and such shelfish as they could find.
British regional (southern). Now Welsh English (Pembrokeshire) (rare).
= oarweed n.
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1586 W. Camden Brit. 69 Alga marina Orewood dicta.
1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 27v To this purpose also serueth Orewood, which is a weed growing vpon the rockes vnder high water marke.
1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia i. x. 30 They vse both Orewood, Sea-sand, and Sea-slubbe for soylings.
1620 G. Markham Farwell to Husbandry xi. 77 Those broad leaued blacke weeds, which are called Orewood, and grow in great tufts..about the shoare.
1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agric. (1687) 321 Ore-wood, Sea-weeds or Oose wherewith they manure their Land.
1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique (at cited word) Sea Weed, That call'd Ore-Wood is much used in Cornwall.
1982 B. G. Charles Eng. Dial. South Pembrokeshire Hore-wood, sea-weed.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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