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nounˈdedwo͝odˈdɛdwʊdˈdɛdwʊd 1A branch or part of a tree that is dead. Example sentencesExamples - I like spending time in the woods, when i lived in the countryside I used to collect dead wood with my bow saw for my woodburner-stove, and I appreciated the atmosphere.
- The dead wood, which makes a tree so scenic and historic, is not absent from the life processes of the tree.
- Studies of coastal temperate rainforests have found at least 80 species that depend directly on deadwood for their survival.
- Parish councillors had already decided the lime tree would have to go after two separate professional surveys concluded that it posed a significant risk, with its trunk essentially hollow and large areas of deadwood within its crown.
- One scout stayed in the boat and myself and the other one cleared branches, bushes and deadwood to get him through and down to the boat.
- Like fingerings for the double flute after a long absence, the old skills came back with surprising speed: the uses of deadwood and tree bark, the knack of setting a rabbit snare, where to look for strawberries.
- ‘There is a lot of deadwood and fuel for fire,’ Wofsy explains.
- Lightning fires cleared the woods of brush, dead wood, and an overabundance of young trees.
- Forested wetlands, said by PCS to have been ‘restored,’ were shadeless tangles of parched deadwood.
- When we had unsaddled the horses and unpacked our kit I began gathering dead wood so I might have plenty for our fire.
- The colour of the branches depends on what dead wood and leaf litter it is growing upon.
- Try to leave some selected sections of dead wood on a tree, to provide nesting homes for birds.
- The great tree is an ancient spire of dead wood, made of lignin and cellulose by the ancestors of the thin layer of living cells that go to constitute its bark.
- Old shrubs, such as spiraea, forsythia, lilac, and honeysuckle, often become overgrown and full of crowded stems and dead wood.
- He expecting to face his enemy, but instead, the man found himself facing a huge piece of deadwood neatly sliced in half right across its meter thick trunk.
- The Anvil Lopper is designed for pruning dry or dead wood.
- Remove weak and crossing branches and dead wood.
- Because dead wood is immune to termites and wood-rotting fungi, large trees can take a millennium to weather away after dying.
- New life pushes out from what often looks like dead wood, and it is the time of the year when the weather really starts to change as well.
- Maples generally need little pruning, other than to remove root suckers and dead wood or branches that cross or grow too low.
- Prune plants to regulate size, renew growth, develop plant form and orient branches and remove dead wood.
- It was neglected in the recent past and tree surgeons have been busy removing dead wood to make the area safer.
- In a minute, he'd found a large piece of deadwood.
- We obtained 147 samples from living trees and 1005 from dead wood.
- Young men with axes and pack animals travel for hours to cut standing trees, but they also prefer deadwood because it is easier to transport and does not need time to dry.
- You can pile your chainsaw, gas and tools in the trailer and drive right to the deadwood that needs cutting.
- His feet slipped over fallen deadwood and sapless branches that snapped like gunshots as he ran amongst them.
- Prune any dead wood evident on trees, but avoid trimming spring-flowering shrubs.
- Katrin built a fire from deadwood, it being illegal to cut living vegetation, while I trawled for bass.
- Someone will have to scale a ladder periodically to keep the vines from attacking shutters and shingles and to prune out dead wood.
- Signs of structural instability include cracks in the trunk or major limbs, hollow or decayed areas, or excessive dead wood.
- For the last decade, Harper has disked in shreddings and aged manure each spring and burned only deadwood at her farm.
- Just cut out dead wood - canes that are dark brown or gray - and trim away occasional branches that clog the inside of the plant, to promote good air circulation.
- 1.1 People or things that are no longer useful or productive.
Example sentencesExamples - Boards and legislatures have insisted on post-tenure review as a way of ensuring faculty responsibility and of getting rid of supposed deadwood.
- If you have deadwood in a research university, you are cutting against the whole purpose of that university.
- Despite the fact that they have a lot of dead wood, like me (and yes, there are countless others), the company has managed to do very well throughout this recent recession.
- Time to cut the dead wood and restore the pride to this great school.
- Or, for once just once the Liberal Party could act like a professional machine and toss out dead wood.
- Besides, the economy won't resume rapid growth until deadwood has been cut out, making it possible for companies to start investing again in assets that are priced to earn healthy profits.
- With Nixon's full support, he was determined to become the real head of the Intelligence Community and to clean house at CIA by eliminating deadwood and cutting costs.
- I believe this system could work and that it could help rid the Premiership of its dead wood.
- Tradition is no deadwood, but a tree that grows and sprouts through the changing seasons.
- Mostly this process will clear away a lot of dead wood, discrediting a crowd of mediocre directors and actors that no one will care about in two years' time.
- But surely now is the time to take the bull by the horns and ditch the deadwood.
- Andrew Runciman confided: ‘There's a lot of dead wood in the public sector that needs sorting out.’
- We'll never beat Australia carrying dead wood and those two players are dead wood - but I wouldn't drop them.
- The only acceptable, pragmatic stance here is to seek to transform religion: to draw out its source code, remove its dead wood, and reconstruct it without its legalism.
- Even in Derry I had to get rid of some dead wood and bring in new lads.
- By throwing out the careerists and dead wood they can begin the job of turning the union into an organisation that's strong enough to defend the interests of all its members against those of the employer.
- The Legislature wanted the committee to remove dead wood provisions from the Maryland Constitution.
- They will also seek to get rid of dead wood in our State Parliament.
- Frankly, it's amazing that the Yankees accomplished all that they did last season with so much offensive deadwood.
- The intelligentsia's passion was for the avant-garde - the green and growing extremities of culture rather than the dead wood of tradition.
proper nounˈdedwo͝odˈdedwo͝od A city in western South Dakota, in the Black Hills, known for its 1870s gold rush and Boot Hill cemetery; population 1,283 (est. 2008).
nounˈdedwo͝odˈdɛdwʊd 1A branch or part of a tree that is dead. Example sentencesExamples - His feet slipped over fallen deadwood and sapless branches that snapped like gunshots as he ran amongst them.
- Parish councillors had already decided the lime tree would have to go after two separate professional surveys concluded that it posed a significant risk, with its trunk essentially hollow and large areas of deadwood within its crown.
- Studies of coastal temperate rainforests have found at least 80 species that depend directly on deadwood for their survival.
- Like fingerings for the double flute after a long absence, the old skills came back with surprising speed: the uses of deadwood and tree bark, the knack of setting a rabbit snare, where to look for strawberries.
- Young men with axes and pack animals travel for hours to cut standing trees, but they also prefer deadwood because it is easier to transport and does not need time to dry.
- He expecting to face his enemy, but instead, the man found himself facing a huge piece of deadwood neatly sliced in half right across its meter thick trunk.
- Just cut out dead wood - canes that are dark brown or gray - and trim away occasional branches that clog the inside of the plant, to promote good air circulation.
- The great tree is an ancient spire of dead wood, made of lignin and cellulose by the ancestors of the thin layer of living cells that go to constitute its bark.
- Remove weak and crossing branches and dead wood.
- New life pushes out from what often looks like dead wood, and it is the time of the year when the weather really starts to change as well.
- Old shrubs, such as spiraea, forsythia, lilac, and honeysuckle, often become overgrown and full of crowded stems and dead wood.
- In a minute, he'd found a large piece of deadwood.
- The dead wood, which makes a tree so scenic and historic, is not absent from the life processes of the tree.
- Someone will have to scale a ladder periodically to keep the vines from attacking shutters and shingles and to prune out dead wood.
- Lightning fires cleared the woods of brush, dead wood, and an overabundance of young trees.
- It was neglected in the recent past and tree surgeons have been busy removing dead wood to make the area safer.
- You can pile your chainsaw, gas and tools in the trailer and drive right to the deadwood that needs cutting.
- When we had unsaddled the horses and unpacked our kit I began gathering dead wood so I might have plenty for our fire.
- ‘There is a lot of deadwood and fuel for fire,’ Wofsy explains.
- Prune plants to regulate size, renew growth, develop plant form and orient branches and remove dead wood.
- Forested wetlands, said by PCS to have been ‘restored,’ were shadeless tangles of parched deadwood.
- Katrin built a fire from deadwood, it being illegal to cut living vegetation, while I trawled for bass.
- Because dead wood is immune to termites and wood-rotting fungi, large trees can take a millennium to weather away after dying.
- One scout stayed in the boat and myself and the other one cleared branches, bushes and deadwood to get him through and down to the boat.
- I like spending time in the woods, when i lived in the countryside I used to collect dead wood with my bow saw for my woodburner-stove, and I appreciated the atmosphere.
- Prune any dead wood evident on trees, but avoid trimming spring-flowering shrubs.
- Try to leave some selected sections of dead wood on a tree, to provide nesting homes for birds.
- For the last decade, Harper has disked in shreddings and aged manure each spring and burned only deadwood at her farm.
- We obtained 147 samples from living trees and 1005 from dead wood.
- The Anvil Lopper is designed for pruning dry or dead wood.
- Maples generally need little pruning, other than to remove root suckers and dead wood or branches that cross or grow too low.
- Signs of structural instability include cracks in the trunk or major limbs, hollow or decayed areas, or excessive dead wood.
- The colour of the branches depends on what dead wood and leaf litter it is growing upon.
- 1.1 People or things that are no longer useful or productive.
a lot of the company's deadwood was removed by voluntary redundancy Example sentencesExamples - We'll never beat Australia carrying dead wood and those two players are dead wood - but I wouldn't drop them.
- By throwing out the careerists and dead wood they can begin the job of turning the union into an organisation that's strong enough to defend the interests of all its members against those of the employer.
- Or, for once just once the Liberal Party could act like a professional machine and toss out dead wood.
- Besides, the economy won't resume rapid growth until deadwood has been cut out, making it possible for companies to start investing again in assets that are priced to earn healthy profits.
- I believe this system could work and that it could help rid the Premiership of its dead wood.
- Frankly, it's amazing that the Yankees accomplished all that they did last season with so much offensive deadwood.
- But surely now is the time to take the bull by the horns and ditch the deadwood.
- With Nixon's full support, he was determined to become the real head of the Intelligence Community and to clean house at CIA by eliminating deadwood and cutting costs.
- Despite the fact that they have a lot of dead wood, like me (and yes, there are countless others), the company has managed to do very well throughout this recent recession.
- Even in Derry I had to get rid of some dead wood and bring in new lads.
- The only acceptable, pragmatic stance here is to seek to transform religion: to draw out its source code, remove its dead wood, and reconstruct it without its legalism.
- Time to cut the dead wood and restore the pride to this great school.
- Andrew Runciman confided: ‘There's a lot of dead wood in the public sector that needs sorting out.’
- Mostly this process will clear away a lot of dead wood, discrediting a crowd of mediocre directors and actors that no one will care about in two years' time.
- Tradition is no deadwood, but a tree that grows and sprouts through the changing seasons.
- The Legislature wanted the committee to remove dead wood provisions from the Maryland Constitution.
- The intelligentsia's passion was for the avant-garde - the green and growing extremities of culture rather than the dead wood of tradition.
- If you have deadwood in a research university, you are cutting against the whole purpose of that university.
- Boards and legislatures have insisted on post-tenure review as a way of ensuring faculty responsibility and of getting rid of supposed deadwood.
- They will also seek to get rid of dead wood in our State Parliament.
proper nounˈdedwo͝od A city in western South Dakota, in the Black Hills, known for its 1870s gold rush and Boot Hill cemetery; population 1,283 (est. 2008).
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