seerwood

English

Alternative forms

• searwood

Etymology

See sear.

Noun

seerwood (countable and uncountable, plural seerwoods)

1. (obsolete) dry wood
   • 1717, John Dryden [et al.], “(please specify |book=I to XV)”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

     Caught, like dry stubble fired, or like seerwood

References

• “seerwood”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• wood-sere