woodship

plural woodships

1. A wooden ship.

   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

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   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

   Land could be available for a fleet base and armament depot, but the only possible site for an armament wharf is on Munganno Point (where the woodship wharf is already located).

   1988, Maritime Studies - Issues 40-49, page 22

   An unknown woodship carrying 15 to 40ft (4.3-12.2 m) logs .of over 4 ft (1.2m) girth was wrecked in January 1804.

   1997, Alexander Fenton, The Northern Isles: Orkney and Shetland, page 112

2. obsoleteControl over and responsibility for a wooded area.

   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

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   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

   Charmed by Aunt Matilda, affable and cunning, hilltop household find themselves at The Great War's end in command of a corporation that had its origin in Grandfather Pawley's woodship and William's groggy head.

   2010, Charles E. Miller, The Critics' Review, page 66