woodship

Noun

woodship (plural woodships)

1. A wooden ship.
   • Apparently Marconi could not give his ideas on the subject a practical shape himself but Taylor and Young of the Naval Research Laboratory (U.S. A.) seemed to have made use of his ideas when late in 1922, they used a 5m wavelength CW transmitter to detect a woodship.1965, Journal of the Institution of Engineers Pakistan, page 154
   • Also, another woodship from America with my cousin who is like a brother to me will come to these islands.1982, Karen Harper, Island Ecstasy, page 471
2. (obsolete) Control over and responsibility for a wooded area.
   • His successors, Earls of Glocester, held the manor of the Abps. of Canterbury, on condition that they should be stewards at the Abps. installments, and grant them the woodship of their children; but this tenure, after long dispute, was compounded.1751, Stephen Whatley, England's Gazetteer
   • There were two other parties of messieurs going into the woods at the same time, and they were having contraverbial discussions by the bushel over every sort of thing, you know, in association with woodship.1902, Scribner's Magazine - Volume 32, page 223