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Vinony

oakwood

noun

  1. forest with mostly oak trees
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Etymology: By proprialization from oakwood, as likewise with Oakland from oak + -land.

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  6. A hamlet south-east of Coupar Angus, Perth and Kinross council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NO2537).
  7. A locality in the Inverell council area, north eastern New South Wales, Australia.
  8. A rural locality in Bundaberg Region, Queensland, Australia.
  9. A community in Kawartha Lakes, Ontario, Canada.
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noun

Etymology: From Old English āc wudu; equivalent to oak + wood.

  1. A wood populated with oak trees.

    “He says moreover the Earl of Galloway had an oakwood of three miles extent along the Cree, whence a great part of Wigtonshire is supplied with timber[…]”

    “She stood there for a moment, entirely alone in the dreaming oakwoods […]”

  2. The wood of the oak tree.

    “Then I ran into the wilderness again of Wolf Creek, and spent 25 cents of the last little money I had in buying a can of salmon, which I devoured sitting on a log in the forest, and came at night to Grave Creek, and split a pile of oakwood, getting a good supper thereby and a long talk with the hired girl, who was pretty and pleasant, not deeming me a common tramp.”

    “When you went in the heavy front doors of Grandpa Cook’s house, the first impression was of burning oakwood. […] The room I always slept in there, and that was especially for grandchildren, was a gloom. It had a no-lived-in feeling, no magic, no smell of its own, except that of the all-penetrating burning oakwood.”