barwood
English
Etymology
bar + wood, since it was imported from Africa in bars.
Noun
barwood (usually uncountable, plural barwoods)
- The red wood of a leguminous African tree, Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template., used as a dyewood and for ramrods, violin bows and turner's work.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “barwood”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)