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  • 31Wood chopping — Woodchop or wood chopping is a sport that has been around for hundreds of years in several cultures. In wood chopping competitions, skilled contestants attempt to be the first to cut or saw through a log or other block of wood. It is often held… …

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  • 32Wood (golf) — A modern 460cc driver alongside an early 1980s persimmon driver. A wood (also called a driver) is a type of club used in the sport of golf. Woods are used to hit the ball farther (greater distances) than any other type of golf club. Woods are so… …

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  • 33ash */*/ — UK [æʃ] / US noun Word forms ash : singular ash plural ashes 1) [countable/uncountable] the grey powder that remains after something has burned cigarette ash All that remained of the fire was a pile of ashes. 2) a) ash or ash tree [countable] a… …

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  • 34ash — I. noun Etymology: Middle English asshe, from Old English æsc; akin to Old High German ask ash, Latin ornus mountain ash Date: before 12th century 1. any of a genus (Fraxinus) of trees of the olive family with pinnate leaves, thin furrowed bark,… …

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  • 35ash — I [[t]æʃ[/t]] n. 1) the powdery residue of matter that remains after burning 2) gel finely pulverized lava thrown out by a volcano in eruption 3) a light, silvery gray color 4) ashes a) deathlike grayness; extreme pallor b) ruins, esp. the… …

    From formal English to slang

  • 36wood — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. forest, grove, timber, copse, coppice, thicket, spinny, bosque, bois; woods, woodland; board, plank, log, lumber. See materials. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Wooden] Syn. woodlike, made of wood, hard;… …

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  • 37ash — noun (C, U) 1 the soft grey powder that remains after something has been burnt: cigarette ash | The house burnt to ashes. 2 a very hard wood, or the tree, common in Britain and North America, that produces this 3 ashes (plural) the ash that… …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 38ash borer — noun Etymology: ash (I) : any of various insect larvae that bore in the wood of ash trees; especially : a larval clearwing (Podosesia syringae fraxini) of eastern and central No. America …

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  • 39Ash Wednesday — Wednesday Wednes day (?; 48), n. [OE. wednesdai, wodnesdei, AS. W[=o]dnes d[ae]g, i. e., Woden s day (a translation of L. dies Mercurii); fr. W[=o]den the highest god of the Teutonic peoples, but identified with the Roman god Mercury; akin to OS …

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  • 40Ash-leaved walnut — Walnut Wal nut, n. [OE. walnot, AS. wealh hnutu a Welsh or foreign nut, a walnut; wealh foreign, strange, n., a Welshman, Celt (akin to OHG. Walh, properly, a Celt, from the name of a Celtic tribe, in L. Volcae) + hnutu a nut; akin to D. walnoot …

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