deadwood
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English
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
deadwood (countable and uncountable, plural deadwoods)
- Dead branches or wood on a tree, or coarse woody debris.
- People or things judged to be superfluous to an organization or project.
- Money not realized by exiting a winning pump trade too early.
- (bowling) Pins that have fallen and have not been cleared from the alley.
- (nautical) Vertical planks between the keel and the sternpost that act as reinforcement.
- (by extension) Structural material on a load-carrying vehicle that reduces the available cargo space.
- 1808, The Southwestern Reporter, volume 42, page 1066:
- The defendant […] sustained the injuries at Swatzell's switch, by getting his arm caught between the deadwoods of two freight cars […]
- (rummy) Cards in a hand that do not contribute to sets and which are usually counted as points against the player holding the hand.
- (poker) Cards that have been discarded.
Synonyms
- (woody debris): deadfall
Translations
Romanian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English deadwood.
Noun
deadwood n (plural deadwooduri)
Declension
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
| nominative-accusative | deadwood | deadwoodul | deadwooduri | deadwoodurile | |
| genitive-dative | deadwood | deadwoodului | deadwooduri | deadwoodurilor | |
| vocative | deadwoodule | deadwoodurilor | |||