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Origin of wood tickFirst recorded in 1660–70 Words nearby wood tickwood sugar, wood-swallow, woodsy, wood tar, wood thrush, wood tick, woodtone, woodturner, wood turning, wood turpentine, Woodville Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for wood tickDoubtless at that same instant I shall discover a wood-tick advancing up one of my trousers' legs. Quick Action|Robert W. Chambers When I hire out I goes ter the highest bidder, an' I sticks thar like a wood-tick ter a yaller dog. Motor Matt; or, The King of the Wheel|Stanley R. Matthews She says they very soon found out as they was under a wood-tick tree too, an' the children run into a burr-patch after dinner. Susan Clegg and a Man in the House|Anne Warner The wood-tick is a small, rather disgusting-looking creature which, in appearance and size, resembles the common bedbug. On the Trail|Lina Beard and Adelia Belle Beard
While there, we were greatly annoyed by the wood-tick—an insect resembling, in size and in other respects, the sheep-tick. Early Western Travels 1748-1846, Volume XXX|Joel Palmer
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