Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Wood that has been preserved in a peat bog.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
bog-oak .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The wood of trees, esp. of oaks, dug up from peat bogs. It is of a shining black or ebony color, and is largely used for making ornaments.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The dark, shiny
wood oftrees , especiallyoaks , dug up frompeat bogs , sometimes used for makingornaments .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The door through which one enters Masa is made of 2,000-year-old Japanese bogwood.
If You Knew Sushi Tosches, Nick 2007
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The door through which one enters Masa is made of 2,000-year-old Japanese bogwood.
If You Knew Sushi Tosches, Nick 2007
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For the face of the Colonel was hard and stern as a block of bogwood oak; and though the men might pity me and think me unjustly executed, yet they must obey their orders, or themselves be put to death.
Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004
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At the far end of the room was a second door, which stood half open; a bogwood fire burned on a hearth somewhat less rude than the one which I had first seen, but still very little better appointed with a chimney, for thick wreaths of smoke were eddying, with every fitful gust, about the room.
The Purcell Papers 2003
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But behind them, and I should say in unpleasant proximity (for the peasantry do not carry handkerchiefs scented with White Rose or Jockey Club, -- only the odor of the peat and the bogwood), surged a vast crowd of men and women, on whose lips and in whose hearts was a prayer for her who was entering on the momentous change in her sweet and tranquil life.
My New Curate P.A. Sheehan
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No fuel would serve for a candle which has not the property of giving this cup, except such fuel as the Irish bogwood, where the material itself is like a sponge and holds its own fuel.
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No fuel would serve for a candle which has not the property of giving this cup, except such fuel as the Irish bogwood, where the material itself is like a sponge, and holds its own fuel.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science Various 1909
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Some one struck a light and illuminated a branch of bogwood which he held above his head as a torch.
The Northern Iron George A. Birmingham 1907
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A brooch with a miniature portrait sustained a bogwood watch-chain upon her bosom, and at her elbow lay a heap of knitting and an old copy of
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A brooch with a miniature portrait sustained a bogwood watch-chain upon her bosom, and at her elbow lay a heap of knitting and an old copy of The Queen.
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