ashwood
ashwood noun: wood of the ash tree.
Noun
ashwood (countable and uncountable, plural ashwoods)
- Wood of the ash tree.
- Easily as a sailor handling a blasphemy, the African reached behind him for the Viking ax (whose name, cut in runes along its ashwood haft, translated roughly as “Defiler of Your Mother”), but three little words preserved the cordial relations between the head and neck of the intruder, a wiry old...2007 February 4, Michael Chabon, “‘Gentlemen of the Road’”, in New York Times
Proper noun capitalized: Ashwood
Ashwood (countable and uncountable, plural Ashwoods)
- A village in South Staffordshire district, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SO8688).
- A ghost town in Jefferson County, Oregon, United States.
- A census-designated place in Lee County, South Carolina, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Maury County, Tennessee, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Matagorda County, Texas, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Bath County, Virginia, United States.
- A suburb of Melbourne in the City of Monash, Victoria, Australia
- A habitational surname from Old English.
Forms of ashwood
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | ashwoods |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Ashwoods |
| alternative form | Dashwood |
Origin of ashwood
From ash + wood.
From Old English æsċ (“ash tree”) + wudu (“wood”).
Questions about ashwood
- What does ashwood mean?
- Ashwood means wood of the ash tree.
- What part of speech is ashwood?
- Ashwood can be a noun or a proper noun.
- What is the plural of ashwood?
- The plural of ashwood is ashwoods.
Words near ashwood in the dictionary
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