Wooden

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  • adjective. Made or consisting of wood.
  • adjective. Stiff and unnatural; without spirit.
  • adjective. Clumsy and awkward; ungainly.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Made of wood; consisting of wood.
  • Stiff; ungainly; clumsy; awkward; spirit less; expressionless: as, a wooden stare.
  • Dull; stupid, as if with no more sensation than wood.
  • Of the woods; sylvan.
  • An instrument of military punishment consisting of a beam or timber, sometimes set with sharp points, upon which the culprit was compelled to sit astride, having in some instances weights tied to his feet.
  • See spoon.
  • =Syn.1. See leaden.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Made or consisting of wood; pertaining to, or resembling, wood.
  • adjective. Clumsy; awkward; ungainly; stiff; spiritless.
  • adjective. In some American colleges, the lowest appointee of the junior year; sometimes, one especially popular in his class, without reference to scholarship. Formerly, it was a custom for classmates to present to this person a wooden spoon with formal ceremonies.
  • adjective. a general name for buckets, bowls, and other articles of domestic use, made of wood.
  • adjective. See under Wedding.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Made of wood: "a wooden boat".
  • adjective. As if made of wood (figuratively):
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. lacking ease or grace
  • adjective. made or consisting of (entirely or in part) or employing wood
  • Word Usage
    "Time has also dealt leniently with the picture, for it is as clear and bright as the day it was painted, and is carefully preserved in its original frame, into which a sliding wooden panel is made to fit and cover it: the outside being emblazoned with the _armes parlantes_ of the family of Holzschuher -- a _wooden shoe_, raised from the ground in the manner of the Venetian _chopine_."
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