baywood
English
Alternative forms
- bay wood, bay-wood
Noun
baywood (uncountable)
- The wood of the bay tree.
- 1771, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1st ed., volume II, page 183:
- CHEWING-BALLS, a kind of balls made of aſafœtida, liver of antimony, bay-wood, juniper-wood, and pellitory of Spain; which being dried in the ſun, and wrapped in a linen-cloth, are tied to the bit of the bridle for the horſe to chew: they create an appetite; and it is ſaid, that balls of Venice treacle may be uſed in the ſame manner with good ſucceſs.
- 1929, American Lumberman, Pt. 3, p. 34:
- We have an inquiry at hand in which a party wishes to be advised where he can buy baywood lumber...
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