wood

IPA: wˈʊd

(uncountable) 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.
(countable) The wood of a particular species of tree.
(countable, often as plurale tantum) A forested or wooded area.
Firewood.
(countable, golf) A type of golf club, the head of which was traditionally made of wood.
(music) A woodwind instrument.
(uncountable, slang) An erection of the penis.
(chess, uncountable, slang) Chess pieces.
(US, sometimes offensive, chiefly prison slang, of a person) A peckerwood.
An English topographic surname for someone who lived in or near a wood.
A surname originating as an occupation for a woodsman.
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Clayton County, Iowa.
An unincorporated community in DeKalb County, Missouri.
An unincorporated community in Franklin County, North Carolina.
An unincorporated community in Bedford County, Fulton County and Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania.
A small town in Mellette County, South Dakota.
An unincorporated community in Mason County, West Virginia.
A town in Wood County, Wisconsin.
Three townships in the United States, listed under Wood Township.

Examples of "wood" in Sentences

a wood, the etymology of that populous village is, _a town in the wood_.
* touch wood, touch wood* He even prepared lunch and dinner for everyone.
Yes | No | Report from mattreney wrote 29 weeks 2 days ago the look and feel of the wood is a lot nicer
An ideal bust of Italia, also in wood, is full of sweet and subtle expression, and pleases me better than the frame.
Finally, if the wood is not exceptionally fine, like your mahogony is, the most eco friendly thing to do is to replace it (with a renewable wood from a renewable source).
Corallines much resemble fossil or petrified wood; and we recollect to have received from the landlady of an inn at Portsmouth a small branch of _fossil wood_, which she asserted to be _coral_, and
One curious experiment is deserving of mention: If a broad-headed nail be partly driven into pine wood, and then some pieces of dynamite placed on the head of the nail, the latter may be struck hard blows with a wooden mallet without exploding the dynamite _so long as the nail will continue to enter the wood_.
It is as if a carpenter should attempt to support an entablature by pillars of wood too small and weak for the weight, and then go on, from week to week, suffering anxiety and irritation, as he sees them swelling and splitting under the burden, and finding fault _with the wood_, instead of taking it to himself.