It was a fine, thick piece of wood, bulbous-headed, of the sort which is known as a “Penang lawyer.”
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
With a wood round it?
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
The very wood seems made of mud, the inhabitants of mud moving.
E. M. Forster, A Passage to India
Over the green squares of the fields and the low curve of a wood there rose in the distance a grey, melancholy hill, with a strange jagged summit, dim and vague in the distance, like some fantastic landscape in a dream.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
And I’ve closed the wood where the Fernworthy folk used to picnic.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
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Merriam-Webster
— the hard fibrous substance consisting basically of xylem that makes up the greater part of the stems, branches, and roots of trees or shrubs beneath the bark and is found to a limited extent in herbaceous plants
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Macmillan
— the substance that forms the main part of a tree and is used for making things such as furniture
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3 uses of ‘wood’ in A Passage to India, by E. M. Forster
4 uses of ‘wood’ in The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle