bugwood

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English

Etymology

From bug +‎ wood.

Noun

bugwood (uncountable)

  1. (US, Appalachia) Cutover scrap lumber.
    • 1975, Frank Adams, Myles Horton, Unearthing Seeds of Fire: The Idea of Highlander‎, page 37:
      Horton and the others had hardly assimilated the lessons of Wilder when the Grundy County bugwood cutters struck. Bugwood, knotty crooks of trees which can be found in any cut-over forest, is unfit for sawing into lumber, but it was harvested for use om distilling wood alcohol
  2. Acacia verticillata
    • 1904, Scottish Geographical Magazine‎, volume 20, page 578:
      Besides these two trees, which are the most general form of vegetation met with, may be found the briglow, bugwood, lapunya, lancewood, cork, box, and bloodwood, the last so named from its light red sap, which oozes in a thick stream

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