Wood

Wood is historically related to Oak.

Theophrastus’s plant enquiry treats oak among trees whose timber is ordinary building and fuel wood. A named wood beside oak as a chief timber tree, not wood-element as a classical phase.

from Theophrastus · Enquiry into Plants, c. 300 BCE

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Wood is historically related to Wood (element).

Pliny and related natural-history reception keep timber wood beside the classical wood phase in elemental speech without making them one lemma. A named wood historically related to wood-element, not identity.

from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE

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Bow is historically related to Wood.

Meyrick’s armour and arms speech seats self and composite bows among wooden staves and horn-backed stocks. A named bow beside wood as its ordinary stave material, not longbow or crossbow as specialty forms.

from Samuel Rush Meyrick · A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour, 1824

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Door is historically related to Wood.

Vitruvius’s architecture treats wooden doors and door leaves among ordinary building joinery. A named door beside wood as common leaf material, not false-door as a tomb relief.

from Vitruvius; Morris Hicky Morgan (translation) · De Architectura, 1st century BCE; Morgan English 1914

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Box is historically related to Wood.

Ure’s Dictionary of Arts seats wooden boxes among ordinary joinery and packing stock. A named box beside wood, not Pandora’s box as myth alone and not chest as the larger trunk.

from Andrew Ure · Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, 1839 (and later PD editions)

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Chest is historically related to Wood.

Ure’s Dictionary of Arts seats chests and coffers among large wooden storage furniture. A named chest beside wood, not medicine-chest as one specialty alone.

from Andrew Ure · Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, 1839 (and later PD editions)

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Boat is historically related to Wood.

Falconer’s marine dictionary seats boats among small wooden craft of river and shore. A named boat beside wood, not ship as the large seagoing form.

from William Falconer · Universal Dictionary of the Marine, 1769

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Brush is historically related to Wood.

Ure’s Dictionary of Arts seats brush handles and stocks among ordinary wooden tool parts for paint and cleaning. A named brush beside wood, not writing-brush as one specialty alone.

from Andrew Ure · Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, 1839 (and later PD editions)

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Club is historically related to Wood.

Meyrick’s arms speech seats clubs among wooden striking weapons of hunt and war. A named club beside wood, not Club of Heracles as the named myth alone.

from Samuel Rush Meyrick · A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour, 1824

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