inwood

English

Etymology

From in- + wood.

Verb

inwood (third-person singular simple present inwoods, present participle inwooding, simple past and past participle inwooded)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To hide in the woods.
    • 1844, The Columbian Magazine, volumes 1-2, page 232:
      One of the company knew a respectable young couple inwooded far enough from the ravine to make it improbable that the unwelcome spirit should take a stroll that way; and he proposed that they should forthwith proceed thither.

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