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baywood

baywood noun: the wood of the bay tree.

Noun

baywood (uncountable)

  1. The wood of the bay tree.
    • CHEWING-BALLS, a kind of balls made of aſafœtida, liver of antimony, bay-wood, juniper-wood, and pellitory of Spain; which being dried in the ſun, and wrapped in a linen-cloth, are tied to the bit of the bridle for the horſe to chew: they create an appetite; and it is ſaid, that balls of Venice...1771, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1st ed., volume II, page 183
    • We have an inquiry at hand in which a party wishes to be advised where he can buy baywood lumber...1929, American Lumberman, Pt. 3, p. 34

Forms of baywood

alternative formbay wood
alternative formbay-wood

Origin of baywood

From bay + wood.

Questions about baywood

What does baywood mean?
Baywood means the wood of the bay tree.
What part of speech is baywood?
Baywood is a noun.

Words near baywood in the dictionary

  1. Bayuyan
  2. Bayview
  3. Bayville
  4. baywing
  5. baywings
  6. baywood
  7. baywop
  8. baywops
  9. bayze
  10. bayzes
  11. Bayán

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