ˈoutˌwood
[out- 1, 3.]
a. A wood lying outside a park or demesne. b. The outer border of a wood or forest.
| 1449 Lett. Marg. Anjou & Bp. Beckington (Camden) 98, x oks of tymbre, to be taken in yo{supr} outwods of Kenelworth. 1485 Rolls of Parlt. VI. 359/1 The Graunte of Kepyng of the Parke called the Moote Parc, with the Oute Wodes of Crambourne, within the Forest of Wyndesore. 1523 Fitzherb. Surv. 4 The thirde maner of commen pasture is in y⊇ lordes out wodes that lye commen to his tenauntes, as commen mores or hethes, the whiche were neuer errable landes. 1883 Stevenson Black Arrow (1888) 52 The two lads..hurried through the remainder of the outwood. |