Meaning of ashwood | Babel Free
Definitions
- Wood of the ash tree.
- A placename:
- A village in South Staffordshire district, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SO8688).
- A ghost town in Jefferson County, Oregon, United States.
- A census-designated place in Lee County, South Carolina, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Maury County, Tennessee, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Matagorda County, Texas, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Bath County, Virginia, United States.
- A suburb of Melbourne in the City of Monash, Victoria, Australia
- A habitational surname from Old English.
Examples
“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.”
CEFR level
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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