Ashwood

name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A placename:; A village in South Staffordshire district, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SO8688). countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    A placename:; A ghost town in Jefferson County, Oregon, United States. countable, uncountable
  3. 3
    A placename:; A census-designated place in Lee County, South Carolina, United States. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    A placename:; An unincorporated community in Maury County, Tennessee, United States. countable, uncountable
  5. 5
    A placename:; An unincorporated community in Matagorda County, Texas, United States. countable, uncountable
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  1. 6
    A placename:; An unincorporated community in Bath County, Virginia, United States. countable, uncountable
  2. 7
    A placename:; A suburb of Melbourne in the City of Monash, Victoria, Australia countable, uncountable
  3. 8
    A habitational surname from Old English. countable
Noun
  1. 1
    Wood of the ash tree. countable, uncountable

    "Easily as a sailor handling a blasphemy, the African reached behind him for the Viking ax (whose name, cut in runes along its ashwood haft, translated roughly as “Defiler of Your Mother”), but three little words preserved the cordial relations between the head and neck of the intruder, a wiry old party armed with a short sword, Persian by the look of him, with a knob of scar tissue where his right eye had been and a curious sneer."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From ash + wood.

Etymology 2

From Old English æsċ (“ash tree”) + wudu (“wood”).

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