different between wood vs hickory

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English wode, from Old English wudu, widu (“wood, forest, grove; tree; timber”), from Proto-West Germanic *widu, from Proto-Germanic *widuz (“wood”), from Proto-Indo-European *wid?u-.

Cognate with Dutch wede (“wood, twig”), Middle High German wite (“wood”), Danish ved (“wood”), Swedish ved (“firewood”), Icelandic viður (“wood”). Unrelated to Dutch woud (“forest”), German Wald (“forest”) (see English wold).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General Australian, General American) enPR: wo?od, IPA^(key): /w?d/
• Rhymes: -?d
• Homophone: would

Noun

wood (countable and uncountable, plural woods)

1. (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.
2. (countable) The wood of a particular species of tree.
3. (countable) A forested or wooded area.
4. Firewood.
5. (countable, golf) A type of golf club, the head of which was traditionally made of wood.
6. (music) A woodwind instrument.
7. (uncountable, slang) An erection of the penis.

8. (chess, uncountable, slang) Chess pieces.
   • 1971, Chess Life & Review (volume 26, page 309)

     […] White has nothing but a lot of frozen wood on the board while Black operates on the Q-side.

Usage notes

In the sense of "a forested area", the singular generally refers to a discrete area of forest, while the plural is often used when a more vaguely defined area is meant.

Synonyms

• (substance): timber
• (wooded area, US): wood lot

Derived terms

Related terms

• wooden

Translations

Descendants

• Sranan Tongo: udu

Verb

wood (third-person singular simple present woods, present participle wooding, simple past and past participle wooded)

1. (transitive) To cover or plant with trees.
   • 1542, Sir Richard Devereux, letter, in Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica, London: J. Nichols, published 1792, page 155:

     Their be ii good bellys, a chales, and a few ve?tments of litil valure, the ?tuff be?ide is not worth xl s. lead ther ys non except in ii gutters the which the p’or hath convey’d in to ye town, but that is ?uar yt is metely wodey’d in hege rowys.

2. (reflexive, intransitive) To hide behind trees.
   • c. 1586, Sir Ralph Lane, “Lane’s Account of the Englishmen Left in Virginia”, in Henry Sweetser Burrage, editor, Early English and French Voyages: Chiefly from Hakluyt, 1534–1608, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1906, page 246:

     Immediatly, the other boate lying ready with their shot to skoure the place for our hand weapons to lande upon, which was presently done, although the land was very high and steepe, the Savages forthwith quitted the shoare, and betooke themselves to flight: wee landed, and having faire and easily followed for a smal time after them, who had wooded themselves we know not where […]

3. (transitive) To supply with wood, or get supplies of wood for.

   to wood a steamboat or a locomotive
4. (intransitive) To take or get a supply of wood.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English wood, from Old English w?d (“mad, insane”). See the full etymology at wode.

Alternative forms

• wode

Adjective

wood (comparative wooder, superlative woodest)

1. (obsolete) Mad, insane, crazed.

Derived terms

• wood-wroth
• woodness

Etymology 3

Back-formation from peckerwood.

Noun

wood (plural woods)

1. (US, sometimes offensive, chiefly prison slang, of a person) A peckerwood.
   • 1991, Mary E. Pelz, James W. Marquart and Terry Pelz, "Right-Wing Extremism in the Texas Prisons: The Rise and Fall of the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas", The Prison Journal, Winter-Fall 1991:

     He further stated that "I can't remember ever seeing a wood [white inmate] assault a nigger without being provoked".

   • 2009, Brendan Joel Kelly, "Pride vs. Power", The Phoenix New Times:

     Other than shout-outs to fellow "woods," I found no references on their record to racism, and after getting to know the members, I think Woodpile's message is the opposite of what the L.A. Times construed it to be — they want to bring hardcore white guys to rap music, rather than alienating anyone of any race.

Middle English

Etymology

From Old English, more at wood above.

Adjective

wood

1. insane; crazy

English

Alternative forms

• hiccory, hickery, hickry, pokickery

Etymology

A shortening of pockerchicory/pokickery/pohickery, from an Algonquian language, probably Ojibwe/Algonquin pawcohiccora.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h?k??i?/, /?h?k?i?/
• Rhymes: -?k??i

Adjective

hickory (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to the hickory tree or its wood.

Noun

hickory (plural hickories)

1. Any of various deciduous hardwood trees of the genus Carya or Annamocarya.
2. (uncountable) The wood of these trees.

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