outwoodn.
/ˈaʊtwʊd/, U.S. /ˈaʊtˌwʊd/ Now chiefly historical.
(a) A wood lying outside a castle, manor, park, etc. (b) The outer border of a wood or forest.
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1297 in J. L. Fisher Medieval Farming Gloss. (1968) 38/2 Utwode.
1338 in Publ. Somerset Rec. Soc. (1942) 57 30 (MED) [Survey of the lands of John Steyning..Item: by] Outewode [12 ac.].
1458 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1855) II. 218 (MED) Lego facturae angeportae ducentis a villa de Wakefeld ad les outewode, x s.
1485 Rolls of Parl. VI. 359/1 This Acte..extend not..to oure Grauntes..to Sir Thomas Bourghchier..of the Kepyng of the Parke and Outwodes.
a1500 ( in C. Monro Lett. Margaret of Anjou (1863) 98 (MED) We..have granted unto John Barham x oks for tymbre, to be taken in yor outwods of Kenelworth.
1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Surueyeng iv. f. 4 The thirde maner of commen pasture, is in ye lordes out wodes that lye commen to his tenauntes, as commen mores or hethes.
1591 T. Cokayne Short Treat. Hunting D2 A Stagge lying in an out wood farre from the Forrest.
1675 W. Dugdale Baronage Eng. I. 27/1 She met him near Quatford, in an Out-wood on Hunting.
1707 London Gaz. No. 4371/4 Two Horse Matches will be run for on Wakefield out-wood..for Two Plates.
1757 Philos. Trans. 1756 (Royal Soc.) 49 818 I have seen it in the outwoods, and in Buddon Wood, near Loughborough.
1860 C. M. Yonge Hopes & Fears I. i. iii. 79 You must have the timber marked when the trees are injuring each other... I'm going to the outwood, I could show you.
1888 R. L. Stevenson Black Arrow i. iv. 52 The two lads..hurried through the remainder of the outwood.
1902 Daily Chron. 27 Nov. 5/3 Hounds..slipped along with Woodhouse Village.., and thence away over the flats to the outwoods.
1957 Econ. Hist. Rev. 9 437 In 1592 he was engaged in a controversy with his tenants at Petworth..over his proposal to impark 200 acres of outwood there.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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