ashwoods

Noun

ashwood (countable and uncountable, plural ashwoods)

1. 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

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