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alderwood ‎(plural alderwoods)

1. A wood largely populated with alder trees.
   • 1860, William Whellan, The History and Topography of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland:

     Geltsdale Forsest is an extensive tract of mountain, forming the south-east portion of Castle Carrock parish, and is a royal forest leased by the Earl of Carlisle. Part of it abounds in birch and alderwoods, and gives rise to the river Gelt, which flows northwards.

   • 2013, Władysław Szafer, The Vegetation of Poland:

     In consequence, when the ground-level in spite of all does in time rise above the water-level, instead of an alderwood one encounters meadow associations belonging to the order Molinietalia.

   • 2013, G. F. Peterken, Woodland Conservation and Management:

     Not all stand types have an alderwood equivalent. For example, Quercus petraea and Fagus rarely grow with alder, so the alderwood equivalents of stand types 6A and 6C are the same as those of 6B and 6D, and there are no alderwood equivalents of been woodland.

2. The wood from an alder tree.
   • 1683 June 10, “An Abstract of a Letter from Mr. Anthony Leewenhoeck of Delft to Mr. R. H. concerning the appearances of several Woods and their Vessels as observed in a Microscope.”, in Philosophical Transactions, volume 13, number 148, page 197:

     Fig. 12. Is a piece of Alder-wood the breadth whereof is about the bigness of the bristle of a Hog, to the naked Eye.

   • 1777, Joseph Nicolson, The history and antiquities of the counties of Westmorland and Cumberland, volume 2:

     The said bishop Ofbaldiston cut and sold all the alder wood upon the demesne at Rose, with large quantities of oak and ash, to the value of many hundred pounds.

   • 1798 October 1, “Mr. Frith's, for a new method of dying permanent colours on linen, woollen, silk, &c.”, in Monthly Magazine, Or, British Register, volume 6:

     For nankeen, to the gall-liquor must be added a decoction of tea of alderwood, walnut, poplar, or mahogany; after which nitro-muriate of tin is to be added

   • 2000, Tim Thompson, Puget Sound: Sea Between the Mountains:

     There he build a giant trap over the water out of a huge cedar trunk split for part of its length and propped open with an alderwood pole.

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