prickwood
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English
Etymology
prick + wood, so named from the use of its wood for goads, skewers, and shoe pegs.
Noun
prickwood (usually uncountable, plural prickwoods)
- A shrub (Euonymus europaeus), the spindle tree.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “prickwood”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)