oakwood

Etymology

By proprialization from oakwood, as likewise with Oakland from oak + -land.

name

  1. A number of places in England:; A neighbourhood of Birchwood, Warrington borough, Cheshire (OS grid ref SJ6591).
  2. A number of places in England:; A suburb and housing estate in Derby, Derbyshire (OS grid ref SK3838).
  3. A number of places in England:; A suburb in the borough of Enfield, Greater London (OS grid ref TQ2995).
  4. A number of places in England:; A small village in Sandhoe parish and Acomb parish (West Oakwood), Northumberland (OS grid ref NY9565).
  5. A number of places in England:; A suburb of Leeds, West Yorkshire (OS grid ref SE3336).
  6. A hamlet south-east of Coupar Angus, Perth and Kinross council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NO2537).

noun

  1. A wood populated with oak trees.“He says moreover the Earl of Galloway had an oakwood of three miles extent along the Cree, whence a great part of Wigtonshire is supplied with timber[…]”
  2. The wood of the oak tree.“Then I ran into the wilderness again of Wolf Creek, and spent 25 cents of the last little money I had in buying a can of salmon, which I devoured sitting on a log in the forest, and came at night to Grave Creek, and split a pile of oakwood, getting a good supper thereby and a long talk with the hired girl, who was pretty and pleasant, not deeming me a common tramp.”