Meaning of warwood | Babel Free

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Wood used for military materiel, especially in the context of historical warfare

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Examples

“Sons of battle! Hunters of men! Raise high your war-wood! Hack away merry men, hack away.”

“Wooden whales, or whales cut in profile out of the small dark slabs of the noble South Sea warwood, are frequently met with in the forecastles of American whalers. ...little canoes of dark wood, like the rich warwood of his native isle.”

“1880, Gerald Manley Hopkins, "Spring and fall to a young child" in T.M. Flormata-Ballesteros, Speech and Oral Communication, page 144, →ISBN. By and by, nor spare a sigh Though worlds of warwood leafmeal lie”

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