shittimwood
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From shittim (plural of "shittah") + wood.
Noun[edit]
shittimwood (uncountable)
- Wood of the shittim (Vachelia seval).
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus 25:10:
- ¶ And they shall make an Arke of Shittim wood: two cubites and a halfe shalbe the length thereof, and a cubite and an halfe the breadth thereof, and a cubite & a halfe the height thereof.