Meaning of bugwood | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Cutover scrap lumber.
   Appalachia, US, uncountable
2. Acacia verticillata
   uncountable

Examples

“Horton and the others had hardly assimilated the lessons of Wilder when the Grundy County bugwood cutters struck. Bugwood, knotty crooks of trees which can be found in any cut-over forest, is unfit for sawing into lumber, but it was harvested for use⟳ om distilling wood alcohol”

“Besides these two trees, which are the most general form⟳ of vegetation met with, may be found the briglow, bugwood, lapunya, lancewood, cork, box, and bloodwood, the last⟳ so named from its light⟳ red sap, which oozes in a thick stream”

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