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  • noun The side of a wood; the land that borders a wood.

Etymologies

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wood +‎ side

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Examples

  • Even now, when I look through the window as the 7 train whizzes past woodside Queens, or when I take the water taxi at South Street Seaport, or walk on the sidewalks near ground zero - I feel a thud in my heart.

    Joe Biden Rips Rudy For Having "Zero National Security And Foreign Policy Experience" 2009

  • War of Words by scott woodside on Sunday, Mar 1, 2009 at 11: 37: 06 AM

    War of Words re: China continues 2009

  • Got a big problem with u merely stating that woodside has nothing endereing other than Donovans and The Station Bar, how about Calvary cemetary final resting place to many famous gangsters, civil war heroes and film stars.

    Dive Right In Brooks of Sheffield 2007

  • Anna said... on i love woodside. their curd is brilliant.

    Woodside Cheese Wrights Virgo Haalo 2006

  • The Greeks figured Pan, the god of Nature, now terribly stamping his foot, so that armies were dispersed; now by the woodside on a summer noon trolling on his pipe until he charmed the hearts of upland ploughmen.

    Virginibus Puerisque and other papers 2005

  • Yet I love to hear their wailing, their doleful responses, trilled along the woodside; reminding me sometimes of music and singing birds; as if it were the dark and tearful side of music, the regrets and sighs that would fain be sung.

    Walden 2004

  • A little flock of these titmice came daily to pick a dinner out of my woodpile, or the crumbs at my door, with faint flitting lisping notes, like the tinkling of icicles in the grass, or else with sprightly day day day, or more rarely, in spring-like days, a wiry summery phe-be from the woodside.

    Walden 2004

  • So he prowled round the edge of the gorse cover, and through the grove of tall old hollies, to the woodside.

    The Fox 2003

  • So all these knights rode to a woodside, and abode till King Mark came by the way.

    Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table 2003

  • I can easily walk ten, fifteen, twenty, any number of miles, commencing at my own door, without going by any house, without crossing a road except where the fox and the mink do: first along by the river, and then the brook, and then the meadow and the woodside.

    Walking 1969

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