greenwood

plural greenwoods · alternative green-wood · alternative greenewood

1. countableuncountableA forest in full leaf, as in summer.

   We who walk the greenwood do many a wild deed, and the Lady Rowena’s deliverance may be received as an atonement.

   1820, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance [...] In Three Volumes, Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co., Edinburgh; and Hurst, Robinson, and Co., 90, Cheapside, London

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   Within a greenewood ſweet of mirtle ſauor, when as the earth was with fayre flowers reuested, I ſaw a ſhepherd, with his Nymph that reſted, […]

   1588, William Byrd; Giovanni Ferretti, composer, Musica Transalpina: Tenor. Madrigales Translated of Foure, Fiue and Sixe Partes, Chosen out of Diuers Excellent Authors, vvith the first and second part of La Verginella, Made by Maister Byrd, vpon Tvvo Stanza's of Ariosto, and Brought to Speake English vvith the Rest. Published by N. Yonge, in Fauour of such as Take Pleasure in Musicke of Voices, London: Imprinted at London [for Nicholas Yonge] by Thomas East, the assignè of William Byrd, →OCLC, number XXXIII

   Vnder the greene wood tree, / Who loues to lye with mee, / And turne his merrie Note, / Vnto the ſweet Birds throte: / Come hither, come hither, come hither: / Heere ſhall he ſee no enemie, / But Winter and rough Weather.

   1599, William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies, London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, act II, scene v, page 192

   But Calipine, now being left alone / Under the greenewood’s ſide in ſorie plight, / Withouten armes or ſteede to ride upon, / Or houſe to hide his head from heaven’s ſpight, […]

   1751, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene. By Edmund Spenser. With an Exact Collation of the Two Original Editions, Published by Himself at London in Quarto; the Former Containing the First Three Books Printed in 1590, and the Latter the Six Books in 1596. [...], London: Printed for J. Brindley, in New Bond-Street, and S. Wright, Clerk of His Majesty's Works, at Hampton-Court, →OCLC, book VI, canto IV, stanza XXXIX, page 270

   The good green-wood! the good green-wood! / Where early violets spring, / Where 'mid the old oak's giant boughs / The merle and mavis sing, […] My dreams are of sweet music wild / Beneath the green-wood tree!

   1842, “The Green-wood”, in Bentley's Miscellany, volume XI, London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, →OCLC, page 605

   Warwickshire is, indeed, a county of Gospel Oaks, and many of these, like the others, are huge in growth and venerable in years. They formed the boundary lines or marks between adjoining parishes, and when the bounds were beaten the parson was wont to deliver his homily beneath the shady boughs. From this circumstance the trees have taken the name of “Gospel Oaks,” and though Time has somewhat thinned their number, there are many still existing, dotted about in various parts of this sequestered greenwood.

   1900, George Morley, “Gospel Oaks”, in Shakespeare's Greenwood: The Customs of the Country: The Language; the Superstitions; the Customs; the Folk-lore; the Birds & Trees; the Parson; the Poets; the Novelist, London: David Nutt, →OCLC, page 206

2. countableuncountableWood that is green; in other words, not seasoned.

   For the Spleene. 58 R. Aſhen keyes, and the Greenewood, burne them, & make Lye of the Aſhes: […]

   1640, T[homas] B[rugis], The Marrovv of Physicke. Or, a Learned Discourse of the Severall Parts of Mans Body. Being a Medicamentary Teaching the Maner and Way of Making and Compounding All Such Oiles, Unguents, Sirrups, Cataplasmes, Waters, Powders, Emplaisters, Pilles, &c. as shall be Usefull and Necessary in any Private House, with Little Labour, Small Cost, and in Short Time …, London: Printed by Richard Hearne, →OCLC, page 172

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   In severe winters, when pressed by hunger, they [the inhabitants of Tierra del Fuego] sacrifice the oldest women of their party—holding the head of the sufferer over a fire made of greenwood, to produce suffocation.

   1839 July, Phillip Parker King, Robert FitzRoy, Charles Darwin, “Art. VI.—Narrative of the Voyages of H.M.S. Adventure and Beagle; detailing the various Incidents which occurred during thei Examination of the Southern Shores of South America, and during the Beagle's Circumnavigation of the Globe. By Captains King and Fitzroy, R.N., and Charles Darwin, Esq., Naturalist of the Beagle. 3 vols. 8vo. London: 1839.”, in The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal: For April … July 1839, volume LXIX, number CXL, Edinburgh: Printed by Ballantyne and Hughes, for Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, London; and Adam and Charles Black, Edinburgh, pages 481–482

   From the 1920s onwards a new tier of timber merchants arose, causing the separation of the primary source, the forest, from the woodworker. Wood in its raw state became devalued, whereas seasoned wood processed into planks or blanks, could command high prices. Never again would the two extremes meet until the birth of what became known as the ‘greenwood movement’ in the 1970s. […] Many people attending a greenwood course never made more than one chair. But some people became so inspired they set up their own workshops in garages and back rooms.

   2012, Edward Mills, Rebecca Oaks, “An Introduction to Greenwood”, in Greenwood Crafts: A Comprehensive Guide, Ramsbury, Wiltshire: Crowood Press, →ISBN

3. countableuncountableCertain half-shrubby species of genista.

plural Greenwoods

1. countableuncountableA surname.
2. A placename
   1. countableuncountableA part of Greenwood/Greenbriar, Calgary, Alberta.
   2. countableuncountableA minor city in the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary, British Columbia.
   3. countableuncountableA village in Kings County, Nova Scotia.
   4. countableuncountableA community in the Regional Municipality of Halifax, Nova Scotia.
   5. countableuncountableA hamlet in the city of Pickering, Regional Municipality of Durham, Ontario.
   6. countableuncountableA community in Laurentian Valley township, Renfrew County, Ontario.
   7. countableuncountableA locality in Mohave County, Arizona.
   8. countableuncountableA city in Arkansas, and one of the two county seats of Sebastian County.
   9. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in El Dorado County, California.
   10. countableuncountableA town in Sussex County, Delaware.
   11. countableuncountableA town in Jackson County, Florida.
   12. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Mitchell County, Georgia.
   13. countableuncountableA former community in Jerome County, Idaho.
   14. countableuncountableA village in McHenry County, Illinois.
   15. countableuncountableA city in Johnson County, Indiana.
   16. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Wayne Township, Wayne County, Indiana.
   17. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Jefferson Township, Wells County, Indiana.
   18. countableuncountableA neighbourhood of Louisville, Kentucky.
   19. countableuncountableA suburban town in Caddo Parish, Louisiana.
   20. countableuncountableA town in Oxford County, Maine.
   21. countableuncountableA neighbourhood of the town of Wakefield, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
   22. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Ely Township, Marquette County, Michigan.
   23. countableuncountableA minor city in Hennepin County, Minnesota.
   24. countableuncountableA city, the county seat of Leflore County, Mississippi.
   25. countableuncountableA city in Jackson County and Cass County, Missouri.
   26. countableuncountableA village in Cass County, Nebraska.
   27. countableuncountableA town in Steuben County, New York.
   28. countableuncountableA neighbourhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Nickname: Black Wall Street.

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       “Even after this utter devastation, most people in the Greenwood community, most African Americans in Tulsa said to themselves and to their larger community, ‘we shall not be moved.’ And they rebounded and rebuilt and created an incarnation of Black Wall Street that would surpass its initial version.”

       2021 May 20, Ashley Vaughan, “Remembering Black Wall Street: Ways to invest in Tulsa and champion Black businesses”, in CNN, archived from the original on 31 May 2021

   29. countableuncountableA census-designated place in Logan Township, Blair County, Pennsylvania.
   30. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Franklin County, Pennsylvania.
   31. countableuncountableA city, the county seat of Greenwood County, South Carolina.
   32. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Charles Mix County, South Dakota.
   33. countableuncountableA ghost town in Lawrence County, South Dakota.
   34. countableuncountableA neighbourhood of Clarksville, Montgomery County, Tennessee.
   35. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Midland County, Texas.
   36. countableuncountableA small town in Parker County, or Wise County, Texas.
   37. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Wise County, Texas.
   38. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Albemarle County, Virginia.
   39. countableuncountableA former community in Bath County, Virginia, now flooded.
   40. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Whatcom County, Washington.
   41. countableuncountableA neighbourhood in north-central Seattle, Washington.
   42. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Boone County, West Virginia.
   43. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Doddridge County, West Virginia.
   44. countableuncountableA ghost town in Fayette County, West Virginia.
   45. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Morgan County, West Virginia.
   46. countableuncountableA city in Clark County, Wisconsin.
   47. countableuncountableA town in Taylor County, Wisconsin.
   48. countableuncountableA town and unincorporated community in Vernon County, Wisconsin.
   49. countableuncountableA number of townships in the United States, listed under Greenwood Township.
   50. countableuncountableA rural locality in Toowoomba Region, Queensland.
   51. countableuncountableA suburb of Perth in the City of Joondalup, Western Australia.
   52. abbreviationcountableellipsisuncountableEllipsis of Greenwood County.