Reverse Dictionary: WOOD

ADJECTIVES
► AGILE of wood: readily worked → 1694 obs.
► BAFF of wood: useless, worthless → 1898 Sc. (Bk.)
► DODACKY ► DODDERKY of wood: decayed rotten → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► DOTY of wood: decayed → 1880 Southern US
► DOWF of wood: decayed → E19 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► DOZEY partly decomposed; of wood, poorly seasoned → 1913 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► MASLEY of wood: knotty → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MAZZARDLY of wood: knotty → 1871 Eng. dial.
► MAZZARDY of wood: knotty → 1871 Eng. dial.
► RIXY of wood: rickety, rotten → 19C Eng. dial.

NOUNS
► ALLIGATION the charring of burnt wood → 1955 US
► ALLIGATOR BURNS charrings on burnt wood in the form of scales that resemble an alligator’s hide → 1981 US sl.
► BATE the grain of wood or stone → 1664 obs. exc. N. Eng. dial.
► BILLET a log, a piece of wood → 1750 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► BLUNK a small block of wood or stone → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► BLUNKART a small block of wood or stone → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► BREASTNER a stick of fuel wood → 1895 Amer. dial.
► ​CHUB a  thick piece of firewood → 1796 Eng. dial.
► CHUBBOCK a thick, short lump of wood, fit only for the fire → 1830 Eng. dial.
► CHUMP a short thick lump of wood chopped or sawn off from timber; an end-piece → 1680
► CHUNK a block of wood → 1781 chiefly US
► CLOG a thick piece of wood; a log → LME obs. exc. Sc.
► CRACK dry wood → 1851 sl.
► DADDOCK rotten wood; a rotten log → 1845 Amer. dial.
► DO ME GOOD wood, firewood → 20C sl.
► DRIX decayed wood; the decayed part of timber → 1609 obs.
► ELF-BORE a knot-hole in wood, thought to have been caused by the fairies → 1814 Sc.
► FALL-WOOD wood that has fallen or been blown down → 1528 obs.
► FLEASOCKS the shavings of wood → 19C Sc.
► GAIG a crack or chink, as in dry wood → 1825 Sc.
► HAND-TIMBER small wood → 1664 obs.
► HYLOMANIA a mania for wood → 1991 (Bk.)
► LACKERY ► LACKRY a stick; a piece of wood → M19 Brit. army sl.
► LAG a defect or crack in wood → 1796 Eng. dial.
► NOGGY a small log or rough block of wood → 19C Eng. dial.
► RACKET a branch of rotten wood broken off a tree for firewood → 1928 Sc. obs.
► RAMMOCK a big rough piece of wood; a gnarled and knotty stick → 1866 Sc.
► RANE a crack in wood → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► ROBIN HOOD wood; a wood → 1992 UK rhyming sl.
► ROCKY MOUNTAIN FEATHERS dry wood shavings used to start a fire → 1962 US sl.
► RUNDLE a cylinder or roller of wood → 1565
► SCROG the refuse of wood; broken boughs, leaves, etc. → 1886 Eng. dial.
► SWIRL  a curl of hair; a knot in the grain of wood → 1786

NOUNS – PERSON
► CORDER a person who saw to it that wood for sale was in full cords → 1654 US
► HAGGER a woodcutter, one who uses an axe or hatchet → 1825 Sc.
► HAGMAN one who gains his living by felling and selling wood; a woodcutter → 1795 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► SAGERS sawyers → 1828 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► WOOD-COLLIER a man who cuts wood for charcoal → 1905 Eng. dial. obs. (Bk.)
► WOOD-HACKER a woodman → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)

VERBS
► LAG to crack or split; used esp. of wood → 1856 Eng. dial.
► REEVE to break; to tear; to split wood → 1809 Sc. & Eng. dial.