bass-woodn.
/ˈbaswʊd//ˈbɑːswʊd/ The American Lime or Linden ( Tilia americana); the wood of this tree. Also attributive.
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1670 Rowley Rec. (1894) 210 The Northwest Angle is a basswood tree.
1728 in Rec. Early Hist. Boston 25 June (1883) VIII. 222 We are of Opinion That no..Black ash, Basswood, or Ceder Shall be Corded up.
1770 in Narragansett Hist. Reg. (1882) July 41 [I] made a hoe handle of bass wood.
1805 Massachusetts Spy 17 July 3/1 The main body [of birds]..appeared to be hovering round the top of an old bosswood [sic] tree.
1814 F. Pursh Flora Amer. Septentrionalis II. 362 Tilia glabra..Basswood; Spoonwood.
1824 W. Irving Bracebridge Hall II. 271 A man is never a man till he can..sleep under a tree and live on bass-wood leaves.
1855 H. W. Longfellow Hiawatha x. 135 Gave them drink in bowls of bass-wood.
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