Brushwood

Word BRUSHWOOD
Character 9
Hyphenation brush wood
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Brushwood"

What do we mean by brushwood?

Branches that have been cut or broken off. noun

Dense undergrowth. noun

An area covered by such growth. noun

A thicket or coppice of small trees and shrubs. noun

Branches of trees cut off. noun

Brush; a thicket or coppice of small trees and shrubs. noun

Small branches of trees cut off. noun

Branches and twigs fallen from trees and shrubs. noun

Small trees and shrubs. noun

The wood from bushes or small branches noun

A dense growth of bushes noun

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The word "brushwood" in example sentences

Now, metaphorically speaking, a brush may be taken as a miniature wood; the common use of the term brushwood is a proof of the general acceptance of the metaphor. ❋ William Ralston Shedden Ralston (1858)

"Don't broadcast my voice on Seda va Sima [IRIB Music channel] ever again: my voice is like brushwood and thorns, and it will forever remain brushwood and thorns!" ❋ The Huffington Post News Team (2009)

Close to us, hid in brushwood, was our own piquet; about 1000 yards from us was the Russian piquet. ❋ Unknown (1856)

The Indians carried first our canoes and then our stores through the brushwood, which is very thick at this point, while we four whites, our rifles on our shoulders, walked between them and any danger coming from the woods. ❋ Unknown (1912)

Even the brushwood is a fruit tree, namely, the guava, which from its abundance is as noxious as a weed. ❋ John Lubbock (1873)

The brushwood is a mixture of twigs and sticks that the men have collected over the course of days, sleeping rough at night. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Certainly not; the vegetation is not so rich, few waterfalls are visible, and there is a slovenly appearance about the clayey or sandy surface, reddened here and there by ferruginous streamlets, and covered with weedy-looking brushwood which is quite at variance with the sloping gardens of the sunny south of ❋ James Samuelson (N/A)

We were in an open place where only a low kind of brushwood grew, when suddenly my horse shied, gave a fearful snort, and sturdily refused to budge another inch. ❋ Marmaduke William Pickthall (1905)

Not a tree is to be seen except the low brushwood which is scantily distributed upon its surface. ❋ Samuel White Baker (1857)

A kind of brushwood covered his face, and through it peeped, with the tip of his hooked nose, the features I have described. ❋ Henri De Crignelle (1840)

Original had "brush-wood"; changed to "brushwood" to be consistent with other occurrences in the text. ❋ John Franklin (1816)

The sepia lays her spawn near to land in the neighbourhood of sea-weed or reeds or any off-sweepings such as brushwood, twigs, or stones; and fishermen place heaps of faggots here and there on purpose, and on to such heaps the female deposits a long continuous roe in shape like a vine tendril. ❋ Unknown (2002)

John's soldiers dug a tunnel under one of the corner towers and stuffed it with brushwood soaked in the fat of 40 pigs, setting all ablaze. ❋ Stephen Brumwell (2011)

Often the shifts between different kinds of epochs require disruptive energy; if only at times to clear away the brushwood, to sweep the house clean for new occupancy. ❋ Ph.D. Kingsley Dennis (2011)

Finally — sick, starving and exhausted — they stumbled into Dolo, a wind-swept outpost of brushwood buildings scattered among the twisted thorn trees and red sand. ❋ Unknown (2011)

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