woodship

English

Noun

woodship (plural woodships)

1. A wooden ship.
   • 1965, Journal of the Institution of Engineers Pakistan, page 154:

     Apparently Marconi could not give his ideas on the subject a practical shape himself but Taylor and Young of the Naval Research Laboratory (U.S. A.) seemed to have made use of his ideas when late in 1922, they used a 5m wavelength CW transmitter to detect a woodship.

   • 1982, Karen Harper, Island Ecstasy, page 471:

     Also, another woodship from America with my cousin who is like a brother to me will come to these islands.

   • 1988, Maritime Studies - Issues 40-49, page 22:

     Land could be available for a fleet base and armament depot, but the only possible site for an armament wharf is on Munganno Point (where the woodship wharf is already located).

   • 1997, Alexander Fenton, The Northern Isles: Orkney and Shetland, page 112:

     An unknown woodship carrying 15 to 40ft (4.3-12.2 m) logs .of over 4 ft (1.2m) girth was wrecked in January 1804.

2. (obsolete) Control over and responsibility for a wooded area.
   • 1751, Stephen Whatley, England's Gazetteer:

     His successors, Earls of Glocester, held the manor of the Abps. of Canterbury, on condition that they should be stewards at the Abps. installments, and grant them the woodship of their children; but this tenure, after long dispute, was compounded.

   • 1902, Scribner's Magazine - Volume 32, page 223:

     There were two other parties of messieurs going into the woods at the same time, and they were having contraverbial discussions by the bushel over every sort of thing, you know, in association with woodship.

   • 2010, Charles E. Miller, The Critics' Review, page 66:

     Charmed by Aunt Matilda, affable and cunning, hilltop household find themselves at The Great War's end in command of a corporation that had its origin in Grandfather Pawley's woodship and William's groggy head.

Anagrams

• Hipwoods