ashwood means A placename:; A village in South Staffordshire district, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SO8688). Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 89 out of 100.
Etymology
From Old English æsċ (“ash tree”) + wudu (“wood”).
name
- A placename:; A village in South Staffordshire district, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SO8688).
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noun
- Wood of the ash tree.“Easily as a sailor handling a blasphemy, the African reached behind him for the Viking ax (whose name, cut in runes along its ashwood haft, translated roughly as “Defiler of Your Mother”), but three little words preserved the cordial relations between the head and neck of the intruder, a wiry old party armed with a short sword, Persian by the look of him, with a knob of scar tissue where his right”