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English
Etymology
wood + -side
Noun
woodside (plural woodsides)
- The side of a wood; the land that borders a wood.
1866, George Alfred Townsend, Campaigns of a non-combatant:The action was commenced by emulous skirmishers, who crawled from the woodsides, and annoyed each other from coverts of ridge, stump, and stone heap.
1907, Ethelwyn Wetherald, The Last Robin: Lyrics and Sonnets:I wandered down the woodside way, / Where branching doors ope with the breeze, / And saw a little child at play / Among the strong and lovely trees.
2008, M D Haviland, Lives of the Fur Folk:In the long light evenings scores of rabbits grazed along the woodsides...
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