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Spring-wood. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1919, rev. 2024. Spring-wood [f. SPRING sb.1 10 and 6 b.]

1   1.  a. collect. Wood growing in a spring or copse of young saplings.

2 1523.  Fitzherb., Husb., § 135. To kepe sprynge-wodde.

3 1893.  Heath, Eng. Peas., 92. He was employed in cutting down small, or ‘spring-wood’ … used for the purpose of making supports to the cuttings in the lead mines.

4   b.  A copse or wood of springs or young trees.

5 1623.  in Fabric Rolls York Minster (Surtees Soc.), Gloss., One springwood called Hagsett, lately bought of Robert Greaves.

6 a. 1722.  Lisle, Husb. (1757), 362. For a general rule, newly weaned calves are less hurtful to newly cut spring-woods than any other cattle.

7 1815.  Farey, Agric. Derbysh., II. 219. Spring-woods, as those are here called, which bear underwood as well as timber, and are cut at stated periods.

8 1828.  Carr, Craven Gloss., Spring-woods, young woods fenced off for cattle, and allowed to spring.

9 1881.  Leicester Gloss., 252. Spring-wood, a wood of young trees.

10   2.  A ring or layer of wood formed round a tree each spring.

11 1884.  Bower & Scott, De Bary’s Phaner., 475. It is … called an annual zone, annual layer, or annual ring, and its limiting layers just mentioned are called spring-wood and autumn-wood.

12 1885.  Goodale, Physiol. Bot. (1892), 139. That [wood] which is produced earliest (spring wood) has somewhat larger ducts and wood-cells than that which is formed later (autumn wood).

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