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woodside en · NOUN

Etymology

From wood + -side.

Meanings

  1. The side of a wood; the land that borders a wood.
    • In the long light evenings scores of rabbits grazed along the woodsides... 2008, M D Haviland, Lives of the Fur Folk:
    • 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. 1907, Ethelwyn Wetherald, The Last Robin: Lyrics and Sonnets:
    • The action was commenced by emulous skirmishers, who crawled from the woodsides, and annoyed each other from coverts of ridge, stump, and stone heap. 1866, George Alfred Townsend, Campaigns of a non-combatant:

Forms

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Deriveds

Woodside Park