deadwood

See also: dead wood and Deadwood

English

Etymology

From dead +‎ wood.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdɛd.wʊd/

Noun

deadwood (countable and uncountable, plural deadwoods)

1. Dead branches or wood on a tree, or coarse woody debris.
2. People or things judged to be superfluous to an organization or project.
3. Money not realized by exiting a winning pump trade too early.
4. (bowling) Pins that have fallen and have not been cleared from the alley.
5. (nautical) Vertical planks between the keel and the sternpost that act as reinforcement.
6. (by extension) Structural material on a load-carrying vehicle that reduces the available cargo space.
   • 1808, The Southwestern Reporter, volume 42, page 1066:

     The defendant […] sustained the injuries at Swatzell's switch, by getting his arm caught between the deadwoods of two freight cars […]

7. (rummy) Cards in a hand that do not contribute to sets and which are usually counted as points against the player holding the hand.
8. (poker) Cards that have been discarded.

Synonyms

• (woody debris): deadfall

Translations

People or things judged to be superfluous to an organization or project.

• French: potiche (fr) f

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English deadwood.

Noun

deadwood n (plural deadwooduri)

1. (nautical) deadwood

Declension

Declension of deadwood

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) deadwood	deadwoodul	(niște) deadwooduri	deadwoodurile
genitive/dative	(unui) deadwood	deadwoodului	(unor) deadwooduri	deadwoodurilor
vocative	deadwoodule		deadwoodurilor

References

• deadwood in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN