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touchwood


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Touchwood  \Touch"wood`\,  n.  [Probably  for  tachwood  OE  tache 
  tinder  (of  uncertain  origin)  +  wood.] 
  1.  Wood  so  decayed  as  to  serve  for  tinder;  spunk,  or  punk. 
 
  2.  Dried  fungi  used  as  tinder;  especially,  the  {Polyporus 
  igniarius}. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  touchwood 
  n  :  material  for  starting  a  fire  [syn:  {kindling},  {tinder},  {spunk}, 
  {punk}] 




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