woodenwood‧en /ˈwʊdn/ ●●● S3 W3 adjective 
made of wood: 
a wooden bench2not showing enough expression, emotion, or movement, especially when performing in public—woodenly adverb—woodenness noun [uncountable]
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- a wooden box
- Dr. Harvey usually seems very wooden during his lectures.
- After the sweet juice is extracted, they carry it in wooden buckets on their heads to the next stage.
- Beyond the group of shirted enlisted men, I could see the wooden legs of a map tripod through the tent door.
- He was indeed a carpenter, and spent his spare time carving small wooden toys for his children.
- One was normal except for some wooden dividers which had been set upon its surface.
- Original fines had included one of £900 for a cracked wooden spoon.
- The entrance to the tunnel was a low wooden door.
- The old bats included a plastic, an aluminum and a wooden one.
- There was an ironing-board, two kitchen chairs and a couple of broken wooden boxes snaked around the front room.
WORD SETS
AC, accessory, nounadapter, nounaerosol, nounalarm, nounarm, nounash, nounattaché case, nounbag, nounbar, nounbarrel, nounbeep, verbbeeswax, nounbell, nounbelly, nounbelt, nounbench, nounbenzine, nounbinding, nounbiro, nounbolt, nounbooth, nounbox, nounbox, verbbrad, nounbriefcase, nounbristle, nounbrolly, nounbrush, nounbucket, nounbuckle, nounbuffer, nounbulb, nounBulldog clip, nounbulletin board, nounbullhorn, nounbung, nounbunting, nounbusiness card, nounbutt, nounbutton, nounbuzzer, nouncable, nouncalling card, nouncan, nouncandle, nouncane, nouncarbon, nouncarbon copy, nouncarbon paper, nouncard, nouncardboard, nouncardboard, adjectivecardboard cut-out, nouncard catalog, nouncarrier, nouncarrier bag, nouncarryall, nouncart, nouncarton, nouncartridge, nouncase, nouncaster, nouncatch, nounCellophane, nouncesspit, nounchain, nounchalice, nounchannel, nounchart, nounchute, nouncitronella, nounclamp, nouncleat, nounclip, nounclipboard, nouncomb, nouncombination lock, nouncompartment, nouncord, nouncrank, nouncrate, nouncrepe paper, nouncycle, noundetector, noundial, noundigital, adjectivedisposable, adjectivedrape, verbdrawing pin, noundryer, noundurable goods, nounDurex, nounearplug, nounelastic band, nouneraser, nouneyelet, nounfabric, nounfelt-tip pen, nounfemale, adjectivefence, nounfiberglass, nounfibreglass, nounfigurine, nounfilament, nounfile, verbFilofax, nounfire extinguisher, nounfirewood, nounfitness, nounflag, nounflagon, nounflagstaff, nounflashlight, nounflat, adjectivefloodlight, nounfoam, nounfoam, verbfog, verbfolder, nounfoolscap, nounforecourt, nounfountain, nounfountain pen, nounframe, nounfunnel, nounfuse, noungadget, noungadgetry, noungargle, verbgas, nounglue, noungoggles, noungold card, noungranny knot, noungravel, noungravelled, adjectivegravelly, adjectivegrease, noungreetings card, noungrommet, noungum, noungun, noungunnysack, noungut, nounhand-held, adjectivehandle, nounhandloom, nounharness, nounhasp, nounhealth, nounhessian, nounhinge, nounhip, nounhoarding, nounhoist, nounholder, nounhook, nounhoop, nounhooter, nounhose, nounhosepipe, nounhub, nounhygiene, nounhygienic, adjectiveillness, nounindented, adjectiveinflatable, adjectiveingrained, adjectiveink, nouninn, nouninnkeeper, nouninsoluble, adjectiveivory, nounjacket, nounjack-knife, nounjoss stick, nounjuggle, verbkey, nounkeypad, nounkey ring, nounKleenex, nounknife, nounknob, nounlabel, nounladder, nounlantern, nounlatch, nounlatchkey, nounlather, nounlather, verbLCD, nounlead, nounlectern, nounlegal pad, nounlens, nounletterbox, nounlever, nounlibrary, nounlid, nounlidded, adjectivelift, nounlight, nounlight bulb, nounlink, nounlinseed oil, nounlitter bin, nounlock, nounlodestone, nounlog, nounloop, verblost property, nounmagnet, nounmagnetic, adjectivemagnifying glass, nounmale, adjectivemantle, nounmanual, adjectivemarker, nounmarker pen, nounmarket day, nounmast, nounmastic, nounmatchstick, nounmaterial, nounmeter, nounmeths, nounmode, nounmortar, nounmortise lock, nounmould, nounmounting, nounmovement, nounnail, nounnameplate, nounnet, nounnib, nounnipple, nounnon-standard, adjectivenoose, nounnotebook, nounnotepad, nounnoticeboard, nounnozzle, nounnut, nounoil, verboilcan, nounoily, adjectiveorb, nounoutfit, nounoutlet, nounovernight, adverbpack, verbpackage, nounpad, nounpad, verbpadlock, nounpaintwork, nounpantyliner, nounpaper, nounpaperclip, nounpasserby, nounpaste, verbpasteboard, nounpatron, nounpatronage, nounpatronize, verbpattern, nounpaving, nounpearl, nounpen, nounpenknife, nounpicket fence, nounpillbox, nounpince-nez, nounpinhead, nounpipe, nounpix, nounpizza parlor, nounplug, nounpocket, nounpocketbook, nounpocket calculator, nounpocket knife, nounpointer, nounpoison, nounpole, nounportfolio, nounPost-it, nounpowder, nounpowdered, adjectivepropellant, nounpropelling pencil, nounpump-action, adjectivePX, nounquarter, verbrack, nounreceptionist, nounreel, nounrefill, nounreflector, nounrefrigerate, verbregimen, nounreservation, nounreserve, verbsachet, nounsack, nounscratchpad, nounscratch paper, nounscreen, nounsealant, nounsealer, nounsearchlight, nounseason ticket, nounseat, nounself-assembly, adjectiveseptic tank, nounservice, nounservice, verbsetting, nounshade, nounsharpener, nounshovel, nounshovel, verbshovelful, nounsilver paper, nounsiphon, nounslat, nounslice, verbslot machine, nounslug, nounsmoke, nounsoot, nounsort, nounspare part, nounspigot, nounsponge, nounspool, nounspout, nounspray, nounspray can, nounspray paint, nounspring, nounstaff, nounstake, nounstalk, nounstandard, nounstaple, nounstapler, nounstationery, nounsteam, nounsteam clean, verbsteel, nounsteel wool, nounstepladder, nounstick, verbstick, nounsticker, nounstilt, nounstopper, nounstorm lantern, nounstrap, nounstreamer, nounstring, nounstub, nounsucker, nounSuperglue, nounswipe, verbswitch, nounswivel, nountab, nountack, nountag, nountag, verbtank, nountap, nountape, nountassel, nountattle, verbtea break, nounthong, nounthread, nountime-saving, adjectivetinder, nountinderbox, nountissue, nountop, nountote bag, nountowel, verbtray, nountrolley, nountube, nountubing, nountwine, nountwo-way mirror, nounumbrella, nounvent, nounvial, nounwaiting room, nounwasher, nounwaste paper, nounwatch, nounwaterspout, nounwheeled, adjectivewhistle, verbwooden, adjectivewriting paper, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES The walls are reinforced with steel rods.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN
· I broke a china bowl.
· We packed all our things into big cardboard boxes.
· The iron bridge was built in 1811.
· The farmhouse is a long stone building about a century old.
· In the kitchen was a table with six wooden chairs around it.
· He sat at a plain wooden desk.
· The hut had a muddy wooden floor.
· Their way was barred by huge wrought-iron gates.
(=having a wood, steel etc hull)
The walls are reinforced with steel rods.· The roofs are flat, fully exposed to the rain, made by packing mud on wooden reeds resting on wooden beams.· Before the coarse brown fabric hung an austere gibbet, constructed of two weathered wooden beams.· All the tables and chairs are of solid dark wood to match the dark stained original wooden beams of the mill.· It was made of corrugated metal and wooden beams and had scores of windows that could be broken but not shattered.· The wooden beams and ceiling were crackling in the extreme heat.· The warehouses are built of stone and have wooden beam hoists on the gable walls.· Beam fire: A wooden beam in a chimney caught fire at a house in Darlington Road, Northallerton.· Their nest is in the wooden beams, some 15 feet above the floor.
· And as the camera glides, it passes a couple sitting on a single, simple wooden bench overlooking the garden.· We crossed Main Street and went into a little park, sat on a wooden bench under a huge scraggly tree.· The approach to the bar's terrace was guarded by two old women taking the sun on a wooden bench.· In the meantime I enclose a selection of wooden bench designs.· The sides are lined with narrow wooden benches.· There was a long wooden bench under the window, littered with instruments and jars.· Because the wooden benches were filled with sleeping soldiers returning from war.
· In it, there are three wooden blocks labelled A, B and C, and a table.· Two, which hold wooden blocks, are on rolling coasters, and they are permanently available.· Lay out the small, smooth wooden blocks or small boxes where the living compartments for the ants are to be.· Tripped on the wooden blocks painted to look like ice, the doll careening away from her down between the blocks.· Teacher: Mark, go and get the heaviest wooden block that you can find.· Straight in at Number 12, it consists of a tower of wooden blocks.· This one had electric lights on either side of the mirror and two on a wooden block along the top.· They put the catapult into position and placed wooden blocks in front of the wheels to stop it rolling into the sea.
· There was an ironing-board, two kitchen chairs and a couple of broken wooden boxes snaked around the front room.· Professor Marsh eventually took almost five hundred ton-sized wooden boxes of bones from the Como Bluff quarries.· To the right a padlocked wooden box was fixed to the grille.· She opened up a wooden box and took out a pair of crystal earrings.· I didn't mind; it kept my thoughts off morbid fancies about Granny in her wooden box.· There is another round wooden box on the shelf, though the wood is darker and the design more intricate.· He said, well, they come in big cases and big wooden boxes and packing and so forth.· For modern sculpture, galleries use a tall wooden box, stained or painted.
· The wooden bridge over the river was destroyed but shortly afterwards was replaced by a similar structure.· Driving over the white wooden bridge that led to the farm, I found I was nursing an odd, melancholy excitement.· That was the old wooden bridge.· Moss gardens, straw-mat rooms, wooden bridges arching in the moonlight, paper lanterns with the fire glowing inside.· In the wonderful autumn afternoons they walked by streams, crossing on little wooden bridges.· A winter stream runs past and to enter the house, one has to cross a small wooden bridge.· The river Limmat flows through Baden and is crossed by an old wooden bridge.· I cross the wooden bridge to the windmill, the planks yielding under my feet.
· He took it up and flew to a stance on one of the wooden buildings round the Park.· He disappeared between two tottering wooden buildings and was enclosed by lines of faded laundry.· We drift around looking the place over for accommodation, eventually selecting a wooden building called Sand Dune Apartments.· The wooden buildings badly needed paint.· The farms were wooden buildings on stilts, with terracotta roofs that glowed peachy-orange against the forest greenery.
· Chamber 3d holds a large dining table with 10 massive wooden chairs.· He sat in the wooden chair before the desk and lit a cigarette.· At their most basic, rush and cane seats provided more comfortable seating than the wooden chairs and stools that preceded them.· There was one white wooden chair in the corner beneath wall cabinets.· Those across the way claimed ringside seats on wooden chairs, each sitter shielded by a thick cotton-lace curtain.· Then, in the center of the room facing the window, the wooden table with a single stiff-backed wooden chair.· I leaned back in the wooden chair and stretched.· Wu Tak Seng himself is sitting on a varnished wooden chair in his doorway, in singlet and baggy shorts.
· Just occasionally, wooden chests were used as coffins, but only for very wealthy people.· I leave her my two good leather suitcases in the wooden chest near the front door.· There had been no attempts on the jewels, which remained unmolested in their wooden chest.· They painted murals on the walls, foliage on the ceilings, and patterns on wooden chests.· In a corner of Frankie's room stood a large wooden chest whose drawers were too stiff for him to open.· They had a wooden chest for their clothes.· He put them all away in the big wooden chest.· A fine old wooden chest covered with intricate brass, nail-head designs was discovered, cleaned and placed in the hall.
· I got to sit down after that, and I find a wooden crate.· A pound and a quarter of C-4 explosive was tied with an explosive cord to wooden crates holding the rockets.· This nanny worked in the big brewery down Manchester Road, capping the bottles and loading them into wooden crates.· And much of the liquid used to simulate nerve gas at the test site was contained by the wooden crates.· Maura sat on the wooden crate.· The cabin is gouged open, spilling out wooden crates, twisted pieces of metal, a blown-up life raft.· The second, lit by a single row of fluorescent lights, was stacked with large wooden crates from end to end.· He looked around at all the cartons and wooden crates.
· At the back of the raised platform at one end of the hall was a wooden cross, about six feet high.· He buried the bodies in one grave with a single wooden cross as a marker; then notified the Commonwealth.· There is a hand-painted wooden cross.· A rough wooden cross rises from it.· A plain wooden cross, about twelve feet tall, and six feet from arm to arm.· His back was supported by a wooden cross, his feet against the clay, facing towards the enemy.· The wooden cross had been dug up and a new large memorial stone had been erected in its place.· The wooden crosses he said broke church regulations.
· The large wooden door swung on its hinges, banging into the wall, cracking the plastered stone.· Two large wooden doors with windows.· We reached the bungalow of Sheikha Grandmother, crossed the porch and pushed open the carved wooden doors of the dining room.· The huge wooden doors shut snugly to create a haven safe from flying glass.· Ian pressed on down the passage, down two steps, until he came to the small wooden door in the fabric.· The heavy chocolate brown wooden door had been recently repainted.· The entrance to the tunnel was a low wooden door.· Through the fifteenth-century wooden door there is little to detain the visitor, just a few tantalizing traces of eleventh-century frescoes.
· Follow a wooden fence to cross a stile and head to the waymarked gate downhill from the farm buildings on the left.· He stayed at his side, directing him toward the wooden fence, then moving him back toward the gate.· He ran, and came with the front rank to the perimeter path and the low wooden fence.· They walked along the tall wooden fence that cut the construction site off from the avenue.· His car had plunged down a motorway verge and into a wooden fence.· Q: I planted nine tomatoes by a wooden fence and six close to the back wall of the house.· At the bottom of the hill there was a wooden fence.· Interesting place, a large wooden dwelling in Tuscan red with green shutters behind a high brown wooden fence.
· The sound of footsteps on the wooden floor of the staging was faint but distinct.· There were seven or eight people sitting on the wooden floor in the room.· In the early hours of Thursday morning, the murderer skewered him to the wooden floor of a refreshment hut.· Inside a yellow barn set in rolling green hills, 10 Sufis spin like synchronized tops across the wooden floor.· She sprawled flat on the hard wooden floor, her cry abruptly silenced as all the air rushed out of her body.· I blinked at the old wooden floor with misunderstanding.· This scheme was suggested by the need to remove the partially rotten wooden floor, thus deepening the space available for subdivision.
· After much midnight hammering, a large wooden frame, covered in chicken wire with a drop down door was constructed.· They decorated the place with hanging plants and printed fabrics stretched over wooden frames.· I feel under the edge of the mattress, above the wooden frame of the huge bed.· The painting is small, about 8 by 12 inches in its carved wooden frame.· He went back to find Tyson and Shaw asleep beneath their wooden frame.· I moved over and peered out of one, catching a glimpse of backyard through screens rusted into the old wooden frames.· In other instances a rectangular wooden frame was employed.· I could see my father strumming the guitar, plucking our ancient, mournful history from the hollowness of its wooden frame.
· A brief moon between clouds outside sharpened the lines of boxwood that led to the wooden gate.· They led us through the narrow streets to the tall wooden gate of the ryokan.· She paused to stare at a wooden gate swinging crazily on its hinges.· Several women and a man stand before the open wooden gates of the courtyard of the church.· Tom carefully opened a sagging wooden gate and went up a stone path that led around the side of the house.· A few pointed inquiries brought me to an old wooden gate that was in need of repair.· They pushed open the long wooden gate where he sat.· A narrow weaving crazy path Leads to a wooden gate, While cats slink along the wall From dusk until I wake.
· The knife in Dennis's paw was sharp and serrated, with a sturdy wooden handle.· Explanation Put the hammer down on the table with the wooden handle touching the edge.· In his right hand he's holding a curved knife with a short wooden handle.· Now move the wooden handle of the hammer gradually over the edge of the table.· Bob Grant Fixing handles Q Could you please tell me the best method of fixing turned wooden handles to cutlery blanks?
· We have passed other wooden houses, but they all appeared to be shut up and abandoned.· For 10 days, many small apartment buildings and old wooden houses had no heat.· They remind me of tiny wooden houses on a Monopoly board.· Ruptured gas lines resulted in fires that gutted entire communities of wooden houses, leaving behind smoldering embers resembling a bomb site.· She pushed it open; it was an old wooden house door drooping on one hinge.· During the 70s we lived in a wooden house that had been treated with a then-popular protection varnish.· Like a sheet of crepe paper, the wooden house burst into flames and burned to the ground in minutes.
· There are also some wooden huts and everything is fenced in to keep out the wolves and curious locals.· Inside there were some long wooden huts which occupied almost all the space.· This is a direct transference to stone or brick building of the primitive wooden hut method mentioned earlier. 2.· Above them, little wooden huts were perched in higher meadows.· This was a wooden hut in which there was some old machinery that generated electricity for the house.· He lives in a glorious wooden hut with several equally attractive out-buildings.· I decided against looking into the tumbledown wooden hut that had once housed the coal hopper controls.· It came from a wooden hut at the edge of a field.
· He seized another wooden leg and smashed the glass in the nearest cases with it.· Beyond the group of shirted enlisted men, I could see the wooden legs of a map tripod through the tent door.· Check closely to see if the body has a wooden leg.· Despite her wooden leg, she was able to fend him off easily.· The man with the wooden leg.· Gold claws at the end of twisted wooden legs.· The bloke with the wooden leg made funny noises as he came up the stairs.· As he moved along the rows of guns, his wooden leg sounded dull thuds.
· Facing him across the bleached wooden plank, Melissa became aware of an extraordinary change in his manner.· The water was above his ankles, flowing over the wooden plank he slept on.· Stripped or new brick makes a good kitchen background, so does tongue-and-groove wood panelling or panelling of wide wooden planks.· But the ceiling is made of rough wooden planks and the floor of mud.· There were wooden planks beneath them which seemed to lie against their bones.· Presently he was there, he had arrived at the wooden planks and the criss-crossed supports of the bridge.· A stevedore negligently dropped a wooden plank into the hold of the ship.· I revived as I felt myself go hurtling through the air and crashed down on to the wooden planks of the scaffold.
· Above, on a wooden platform, are the mill stones, accompanied by one or two antique items of interest.· Most of them had shingled awnings borne on prominent brackets projecting over their simple wooden platforms.· When you die there they put you on a wooden platform below the sky and the vultures come and eat the body.· Susan and Breeze seized their meagre luggage and stepped out on to the tiny wooden platform.· For me, five hundred men built a special wooden platform with twenty-two wheels.· By rail you could alight at the tiny wooden platform that has been used by servicemen for decades.· The Charwighul people laid out their dead on a wooden platform and covered them with reed mats.· Two feet in front of them was the catwalk, a bare narrow wooden platform angling away from a curtained entrance.
· Nervously, I moved forward, fumbling round the battlements until I came to a protruding wooden pole.· There are no telephones, no fire hydrants, only a scattering of street lights on lonely wooden poles.· Endill noticed he was standing beside a thick wooden pole.· In one corner of the grounds, a 13-year-old boy is busy sawing wooden poles in half.· The floor was of bare earth, and a ring of wooden poles supported the roof.· Windows are draped with matching curtains, simply suspended on plain wooden poles.· The decline in the demand for wooden poles has been accelerated by the frequent use of metal poles.
· Talking to Rourke Deveraugh was like beating her head against a hard wooden post.· This is especially troublesome in urban homes, where the animals have little access to wooden posts or trees.· A high wide bed with a dark red cover Pillows banked at one end, and wooden posts.· They forced their way on to adjoining land and cut through chain-link fencing and large wooden posts cemented into the ground.· It is understood that he was beaten with a wooden post before he was stabbed.· A line of wooden posts marks the rift.· The snow was relatively unmarked here, packed high around a great wooden post with a beam jutting out like a scaffold.
· There is also a matrix of wooden rods, metal pipes, and other objects in various configurations and depths.· The hangers draped down in rows from horizontal wooden rods, the blooms pointing toward the floor.· He hugged the banister, counting its bar-like wooden rods until he reached the turn where it met the wall.
· The chief innovation however, were the 32 passengers who sat along wooden seats at each side.· The boat ride to the park from the fishing village Labuan is seven hours on hard wooden seats.· He passed the wooden seats, ducked under the willows, and the last they saw of him was his undulating shadow.· The wooden seat, when she lifted herself on to it, was still warm.· A maze of paths with unique wooden seats and bridges enables the weathered and moss-covered rocks to be seen at their best.· Somehow, he had moved closer, and their thighs were pressed together on the wooden seat.· At one side was the royal enclosure with row after row of wooden seats, all covered in purple or gold cloth.· The 21-year-old skinhead sitting to my left began to squirm in his wooden seat.
· Otherwise use Venetian blinds in plastic or wood which can be easily wiped, or wooden shutters, or no covering at all.· The wooden shutters of the market booths were closing now.· Wishart rose and crossed the darkened chamber to secure one of the wooden shutters.· She went back to her room, pulled the wooden shutters across the windows and lay on the bed.· With the stairs enclosed by wooden shutters, they could operate in bad weather as single-deckers.· I stepped into a cool, dark room, where heavy wooden shutters kept out most of the daylight.
· Continental style bases have flexible wooden slats and are often contained within a traditional divan.· The backs of the trucks are jammed with young men and teenagers pressed against wooden slats.· The wooden slats had bleached grey.· We were lifting metal girders on to a lorry and securing them in place with wooden slats which we nailed together.· The wooden slats were already warm from the sun.· There was no glass in the frame, just thin wooden slats to allow some passage of air.· The three ruffians pummelled me, banging my head against the wooden slats.· A legless beggar pulled himself along through the slush on wooden slats.
· Original fines had included one of £900 for a cracked wooden spoon.· Deglaze pan with wine, stirring with a wooden spoon to loosen food particles.· Add the flour, semolina and currants and stir into the batter with a wooden spoon.· When all the cornmeal is added, begin stirring with a long-handled wooden spoon.· Buying two wooden spoons can be more fun at this time than purchasing an expensive set of china in later years.· With wooden spoon, cream butter and peanut butter until smooth, add sugar and cream well.· Thérèse called out to the wooden spoon clotted with Dijon mustard.· In the family trash they found the remnants of a broken wooden spoon wrapped in a bloody diaper.
· The narrow wooden stairs echoed as they ran up.· Hughes went up the wooden stairs first.· The wooden stairs along the north wall lead directly upwards to location 53. 32.· Hughes walked up a short set of wooden stairs.· The lodge contained a large hall below and a banqueting room above, connected by a grand wooden stair.· Quickly, he ducked through the unadorned side door of the building and began climbing the four flights of rickety wooden stairs.· Access was gained via a flight of external wooden stairs.· Catherine climbed worn wooden stairs, up five flights in all, until she reached the attic storey.
· Down the great wide wooden staircase and into the hall: I am sharp, she thought.· The space age escalator and exposed metal piping of the foyer segued into a spiraling wooden staircase and crinkly old master prints.· Baptiste was standing on the bottom step of the wooden staircase, affecting surprise at the sight of her.· Standing on top of the wooden staircase she hurled herself to the ground, landing in a heap at the bottom.· A china light-switch, finger-flicked, showed her a narrow wooden staircase.· Ranulf scooped his dice into his leather wallet and they went down the spiral wooden staircase and into the hall.· Chewing on her lower lip, she trundled after him along a flagged passageway and up an ornate wooden staircase.· Some one clattered down a wooden staircase.
· The convent garden harboured herbs and a yellow flowering vine flourishing over a falling wooden structure.· The building itself was a bleached wooden structure that enclosed a single small room.· He left from a mean wooden structure at Parel, near Government House.· One was a simple wooden structure carved in the shape of the building.· The building itself a glass, steel, concrete and wooden structure is anything but sepulchral.· Long Bridge in those days was quite a rickety wooden structure, which shook as you walked across.· She saw it almost immediately, the black wooden structure in sharp relief against the evening sky.· Ryokan are typically wooden structures up to three stories.
· In the centre of the room was a large wooden table holding a stoneware jar of dried flowers.· Topic Vibrations Materials A wooden table or desk Demonstration 1.· It was empty apart from a round wooden table, a large golden picture frame on one wall and a cupboard.· The kitchen was like a big utility room with a huge sink, a stone floor, and a large wooden table.· They ordered gins, and sat on a wooden bench before a wooden table, while Karen admired the place.· Inside, under flickering rushlight, on a long wooden table scrubbed to whiteness, were the first trays of crusty bread.· They came upon a small crowd gathered around a long wooden table that had posters of Sophia Loren hanging along the front.
· Sigus hung or painted right on to its wooden walls indicate an office, a clinic, a meeting room.· Staying close to the wooden wall, he crept along between the shed and the hedge.· Loosened birch-bark flapped from the roofs and sections of the wooden walls lay sprawled on the ground, flattened by gales.· That's what Nelson meant, you know, when he talked about wooden walls.· The wooden walls shook and the alien noise echoed around the small building, and for a while the noise stopped.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
- When he motioned for her to take the wooden spoon from him she did so, avoiding touching him at all costs.
WORD FAMILYadjectivewoodedwoodenwoodynounwoodwoodennessadverbwoodenly
1made of wood: a wooden bench2not showing enough expression, emotion, or movement, especially when performing in public—woodenly adverb—woodenness noun [uncountable]