wood

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a golf club with a long shaft used to hit long shots

   originally made with a wooden head

2. 2
   noun

   The substance making up the central part of the trunk and branches of a tree. Used as a material for construction, to manufacture various items, etc. or as fuel.

   This table is made of wood.

3. 3
   noun

   The wood from a particular species of tree.

   Teak is much used for outdoor benches, but a number of other woods are also suitable, such as ipé, redwood, etc.

4. 4
   noun

   A forested or wooded area.

   A wood beyond this moor was viewed as a border area in the seventeenth century.

5. 5
   noun

   Firewood.

   We need more wood for the fire.

6. 6
   noun

   An erection of the penis.

   That girl at the strip club gave me wood.

7. 7
   noun

   Chess pieces.

   […] White has nothing but a lot of frozen wood on the board while Black operates on the Q-side.

8. 8
   verb

   To cover or plant with trees.

   Their be ii good bellys, a chales, and a few veſtments of litil valure, the ſtuff beſide is not worth xl s. lead ther ys non except in ii gutters the which the p’or hath convey’d in to ye town, but that is ſuar yt is metely wodey’d in hege rowys.

Etymology

PIE word *dwóh₁ From Middle English wode, from Old English wudu, widu (“wood, forest, grove; tree; timber”), from Proto-West Germanic *widu, from Proto-Germanic *widuz (“wood”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weydʰh₁- (“to separate”). The spelling developed as it did in wool. Cognate with Dutch wede (“wood, twig”), Middle High German wite (“wood”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Swedish ved (“wood”), Elfdalian wið (“wood, timber”), Faroese, Icelandic viður (“wood”), Norwegian Nynorsk ved (“wood, firewood”), vid (“wide, broad”). Further cognates include Irish fiodh (“a wood, tree”), Irish fid (“tree”)…