Almondwood

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The wood of the almond tree. uncountable

    "[…] when visiting officials give us a hard time, however many they are there's always ten or twenty of the village youths ready to pick up an almondwood cudgel and lay into those agents, even if they number fifty or a hundred."

Example

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"[…] when visiting officials give us a hard time, however many they are there's always ten or twenty of the village youths ready to pick up an almondwood cudgel and lay into those agents, even if they number fifty or a hundred."

Etymology

From almond + wood.

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