woode
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woode (countable and uncountable, plural woodes)
- Obsolete form of wood.
- 1570, Roger Ascham, The Schoolmaster[1]:
- In woode and stone, not the softest, but hardest, be alwaies aptest, for portrature, both fairest for pleasure, and most durable for proffit.
- 1613, Gervase Markham, The English Husbandman[2]:
- The second member or part of the Plough, is called the skeath, and is a peece of woode of two foote and a halfe in length, and of eight inches in breadth, and two inches in thicknesse: it is driuen extreamly hard into the Plough-beame, slopewise, so that ioyned they present this figure.
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Etymology edit
From Middle English wolde (past tense of willen), from Old English wolde (past tense of willan).
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Verb edit
woode
- would
- 1867, “CASTEALE CUDDE'S LAMENTATION”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 4, page 104:
- Ar aany noor dhing at woode comfoort mee,
- Or any other thing that would comfort me,
- 1867, “ABOUT AN OLD SOW GOING TO BE KILLED”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 3, page 106:
- Ich woode be pitcht ee kurkeen, ar zippeen, to a coolaan.
- I would be poked into the mow or the stack up to the back of my head.
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- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 78