Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Encumbered with tall woody hedgerows.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Incumbered with tall, woody hedgerows.
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Examples
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I moved into her living room, where I casually picked up from her coffee table a wood-bound scrapbook bearing the image of a sleeping Mexican on its cover.
Born Standing Up Steve Martin 2007
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Then she vanished, the boy and the second young man followed, and Ethelberta and Christopher stood within the wood-bound circle alone.
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He caught up to Loial going down, the Ogier trying to stuff a wood-bound book into his saddlebags and put on his cloak at the same time.
The Dragon Reborn Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1991
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He gave his answers respectfully but in as few words as Rand had ever heard him use, standing with an Ogier-sized, wood-bound book clutched to his chest like a shield, and when they went, he huddled in his chair with the book held up in front of his face.
The Great Hunt Jordan, Robert 1990
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They closed their wood-bound tablets, tying them shut.
Magicians of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1988
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They closed their wood-bound tablets, tying them shut.
Magicians of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1988
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If an attempt were made to pull the barrel out by the muzzle, it would, in case it were wood-bound, be liable to split at the head of the stock.
Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition. United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Ordnance
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The folk on the welcome way shov'd out the wood-bound.
The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats Anonymous
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Christopher stood within the wood-bound circle alone.
The Hand of Ethelberta Thomas Hardy 1884
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There is fcarcely a farm in the Diftridt which is not more or lefs '■ wood-bound; "that is, injured by overgrown hedges; which are, year after year, receiving irreparable damage for want of cutting; while the undergrown ones are damaged by a lefs pardonable treatment.
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