oakwood

plural oakwoods · alternative oak wood

1. countableA wood populated with oak trees.

   She stood there for a moment, entirely alone in the dreaming oakwoods […]

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   He says moreover the Earl of Galloway had an oakwood of three miles extent along the Cree, whence a great part of Wigtonshire is supplied with timber[…]

   1824, George Chalmers, Caledonia, volume 3, page 280

2. uncountableThe wood of an oak tree.

   The Marlfox ignored the jibe, listening to the steady ring of axeblades against oakwood.

   1998, Brian Jacques, “Act Three: The Queen’s Island”, in Marlfox (Redwall), London: Hutchinson Children’s Books, →ISBN, page 296

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   Then I ran into the wilderness again of Wolf Creek, and spent 25 cents of the last little money I had in buying a can of salmon, which I devoured sitting on a log in the forest, and came at night to Grave Creek, and split a pile of oakwood, getting a good supper thereby and a long talk with the hired girl, who was pretty and pleasant, not deeming me a common tramp.

   1887, Morley Roberts, “Oregon Underfoot”, in The Western Avernus or Toil and Travel in Further North America, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], page 252

   When you went in the heavy front doors of Grandpa Cook’s house, the first impression was of burning oakwood. […] The room I always slept in there, and that was especially for grandchildren, was a gloom. It had a no-lived-in feeling, no magic, no smell of its own, except that of the all-penetrating burning oakwood.

   1933, Mabel Dodge Luhan, “Grandma Cook in Her House”, in Intimate Memories: Background, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, pages 124 and 135

   The acrid smell of sweat and burning oakwood vied with the sweet fragrance of roasted beef to fill her nostrils and envelop her senses, while the heat of the vast chamber threatened to overwhelm her more completely than the rigours of the journey.

   1986, Linda Acaster, Hostage of the Heart, Leicester, Leics.: Ulverscroft, published 1996, →ISBN, page 188

   Synonyms: oak[Appendix:Glossary

1. A number of places in England:
   1. A neighbourhood of Birchwood, Warrington borough, Cheshire (OS grid ref SJ6591).
   2. A suburb and housing estate in Derby, Derbyshire (OS grid ref SK3838).
   3. A suburb in the borough of Enfield, Greater London (OS grid ref TQ2995).
   4. A small village in Sandhoe parish and Acomb parish (West Oakwood), Northumberland (OS grid ref NY9565).
   5. A suburb of Leeds, West Yorkshire (OS grid ref SE3336).
2. A hamlet south-east of Coupar Angus, Perth and Kinross council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NO2537).
3. A locality in the Inverell council area, north eastern New South Wales, Australia.
4. A rural locality in Bundaberg Region, Queensland, Australia.
5. A community in Kawartha Lakes, Ontario, Canada.
6. A number of places in the United States:
   1. A neighbourhood of Venice, Los Angeles, California.
   2. A city in Hall County, Georgia.
   3. A village and township in Vermilion County, Illinois.
   4. An unincorporated community in LaPorte County, Indiana.
   5. An unincorporated community in Steuben County, Indiana.
   6. An unincorporated community in Cecil County, Maryland.
   7. A village in Clay County, Missouri.
   8. A neighbourhood of Hannibal, Marion County, Missouri.
   9. A neighbourhood on Staten Island, New York City, New York.
   10. A neighbourhood of Raleigh, North Carolina; in full, Historic Oakwood.
   11. A village in Cuyahoga County, Ohio.
   12. A city in Montgomery County, Ohio, a suburb of Dayton.
   13. A village in Paulding County, Ohio.
   14. A minor town in Dewey County, Oklahoma.
   15. An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Lawrence County, Pennsylvania.
   16. A neighbourhood in west Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
   17. A town in Leon County and Freestone County, Texas.
   18. A former unincorporated community in Oak Creek, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin.
   19. An unincorporated community in Algoma, Winnebago County, Wisconsin.