woode

English

Noun

woode (countable and uncountable, plural woodes)

1. Obsolete form of wood.
   • 1570, Roger Ascham, The Schoolmaster‎^[1]:

     In woode and stone, not the softest, but hardest, be alwaies aptest, for portrature, both fairest for pleasure, and most durable for proffit.

   • 1613, Gervase Markham, The English Husbandman‎^[2]:

     The second member or part of the Plough, is called the skeath, and is a peece of woode of two foote and a halfe in length, and of eight inches in breadth, and two inches in thicknesse: it is driuen extreamly hard into the Plough-beame, slopewise, so that ioyned they present this figure.

Anagrams

• Ewood, wooed

Yola

Alternative forms

• wode, ood, ud

Etymology

From Middle English wolde (past tense of willen), from Old English wolde (past tense of willan).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wuːd/, /uːd/
• Homophone: udh

Verb

woode

1. would
   • 1867, “CASTEALE CUDDE'S LAMENTATION”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 4, page 104:

     Ar aany noor dhing at woode comfoort mee,

     Or any other thing that would comfort me,

   • 1867, “ABOUT AN OLD SOW GOING TO BE KILLED”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 3, page 106:

     Ich woode be pitcht ee kurkeen, ar zippeen, to a coolaan.

     I would be poked into the mow or the stack up to the back of my head.

Derived terms

• 'twode

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 78