woaded

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adjective

Coloured or stained with woad; woaden

Scrabble 11

Meanings

adjectivewoaded (comparative more woaded, superlative most woaded)

comparative more woaded · superlative most woaded

  1. Coloured or stained with woad; woaden

    Man tattoed or woaded, winter-clad in skins.

    1847, Alfred Tennyson, “Part 2”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC
verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of woad

    The field was then laid to grass and after a dozen years could be woaded again.

    1968, Eric Kerridge, The Agricultural Revolution, page 210
    1 more example

    1776, Temple H. Croker, Thomas Williams, Samuel Clarke, Dye, entry in The Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, Volume 1, page 49 or 50, The piece which has only been woaded will be sound bluish, with somewhat of a dull green ; if it have been both woaded and maddered, it will be of a tan or minim colour; and if it have been neither woaded nor maddered, its colour will be dunniſh, between yellow and ſallow.

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