brushwood

Noun

brushwood (countable and uncountable, plural brushwoods)

1. Branches and twigs fallen from trees and shrubs.
   • His pupils assemble every evening before his tent; where, by the light of a large fire, made of brushwood and cow’s dung, they are taught a few sentences from the Koran, and are initiated into the principles of their creed.1799, Mungo Park, chapter 12, in Travels in the Interior of Africa, volume 1
   • Small streams with hollowed-out banks came into sight, and the tiniest mill-ponds with frail dams, and little villages with low peasant huts under dark roofs, often with half their thatch gone, and small threshing barns all tilted to one side with walls made out of woven brushwood and gaping...1991, Ivan Turgenev, chapter 3, in Fathers and Sons, Oxford University Press, page 14
2. Small trees and shrubs.
   • The river above Goet-accord becomes very narrow, being lined on each ſide with impenetrable bruſh-wood, like the river Cottica, between Devil's-Harwar and Patamaca; [...]1796, J[ohn] G[abriel] Stedman, chapter XVI, in Narrative of a Five Years’ Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the Wild Coast of South America; […], volume II, London...
   • Without any solicitation, or desire for profit on his part, he had been asked to execute during that winter a very large order for hurdles and other copseware, for which purpose he had been obliged to buy several acres of brushwood standing.1886 May – 1887 April, Thomas Hardy, chapter XV, in The Woodlanders […], volume II, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published 1887, →OCLC, page 279