ashwood

plural ashwoods

1. countableuncountableWood of the ash tree.

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   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 party armed with a short sword, Persian by the look of him, with a knob of scar tissue where his right eye had been and a curious sneer.

   2007 February 4, Michael Chabon, “‘Gentlemen of the Road’”, in New York Times

plural Ashwoods · alternative Dashwood

1. A placename:
   1. countableuncountableA village in South Staffordshire district, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SO8688).
   2. countableuncountableA ghost town in Jefferson County, Oregon, United States.
   3. countableuncountableA census-designated place in Lee County, South Carolina, United States.
   4. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Maury County, Tennessee, United States.
   5. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Matagorda County, Texas, United States.
   6. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Bath County, Virginia, United States.
   7. countableuncountableA suburb of Melbourne in the City of Monash, Victoria, Australia
2. countableA habitational surname from Old English.