Read full poem →If there's a Briton then, true bred and born,
Who holds dragoons and wooden shoes in scorn; 20
If there's a critic of distinguished rage;
Dictionary Entry
Made of wood.
In a Sentence
“On a recent windy day, hundreds of visitors climbed wooden stairs to take pictures in front of the glacier.”
Origin
Origin details are still being enriched for this entry.
Common Phrases
Poetry examples for “wooden”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Their wooden Saints in vain oppose ;
Read full poem →Some to the breach^ against their foes,
Their wooden SaiotH in vain oppose ;
Another, bolder, stands at push,
Read full poem →Tomatoes shining in the October sun with red hearts,
Shining five and six in a row on a wooden fence,
Read full poem →[498] Shape or fashion; properly the wooden mould on which the crown of
a hat is shaped.
Read full poem →Whence in the shadow of the dying sun,
She contemplated Hallow’s wooden mill.
Read full poem →delicately wobbles an improbably distinct face,
and how these wooden big two feet conclude
happeningly the unfirm drooping bloated
Read full poem →Her feet made free of silken hose
Naked in wooden sandals cased
Went bruised to Bastia's chapel, then
Read full poem →If I could hear the green piles groaning
Under the windy wooden piers,
See once again the bobbing barrels,
Read full poem →And his elders
Were packing them in the great wooden boxes
For the market in Brescia, and he
