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A cushioned or a piece of soft wood covered with tarred canvas, placed on the trestletrees and against the mast, for the collars of the shrouds to rest on, to prevent chafing.

nto. Next, she means to bombard Naples. Burke. His fleet bombarded and burnt down Dieppe. Wood.

Originally, cotton, or cotton wool. [Obs.] A candle with a wick of bombast. Lupton.

A sort of thin woolen cloth. It is of various colors, and may be plain or twilled.

A soft, elastic, very durable cap, made of thick, seamless woolen stuff, and worn by men in Scotland. And pbonnets waving high. Sir W. Scott.

The sailfish; -- called also woohoo.

the natives of Australia and in some parts of India. It is usually a curved stick of hard wood, from twenty to thirty inches in length, from two to three inches wide, and half or three quarters of an inch thick. When thrown from the hand with a quick rotary motion, it describes very remarkable curves, according to the…

The woody portion flax, which is separated from the fiber as refuse matter by retting, braking, and scutching.

The service formerly required of a tenant, to carry timber from the woods to the lord's house. Bailey. Mozley & W.

of the insect can bore, as with a centerbit, a cylindrical passage through the most solid wood. T. W. Harris.

A marine, bivalve mollusk, of the genus Teredo and allies, which burrows in wood. See Teredo.

Coarse woolen cloth; hence, coarse clothing; a garment. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A growth of trees or shrubs; underwood; a thicket; thick foliage; a wooded landscape.

A thicket; a small wood. "Through bosk and dell." Sir W. Scott.

Same as Boscage. Thridding the somber boskage of the wood. Tennyson.

Woody or bushy; covered with boscage or thickets. Milton.

Any protuberant part; a round, swelling part or body; a knoblike process; as, a boss of wood.

Dotted or pitted ducts or vessels forming the pores seen in many kinds of wood.

A wooden hut or humble cot, esp. a rude hut or barrack for unmarried farm servants; a shepherd's or hunter's hut; a booth. [Scot.]

Bending. [Obs.] Sherwood.