woodside

See also: Woodside

English

Etymology

From wood +‎ -side.

Noun

woodside (plural woodsides)

1. The side of a wood; the land that borders a wood.
   • 1866, George Alfred Townsend, Campaigns of a non-combatant:

     The action was commenced by emulous skirmishers, who crawled from the woodsides, and annoyed each other from coverts of ridge, stump, and stone heap.

   • 1907, Ethelwyn Wetherald, The Last Robin: Lyrics and Sonnets:

     I wandered down the woodside way, / Where branching doors ope with the breeze, / And saw a little child at play / Among the strong and lovely trees.

   • 2008, M D Haviland, Lives of the Fur Folk:

     In the long light evenings scores of rabbits grazed along the woodsides...

Derived terms

• Woodside Park