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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PRICKWOOD

n.A tree of the genus Euonymus.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

PRICKWOOD

PRICKWOOD Prick "wood `, n. (Bot. )

 

Defn: A shrub (Euonymus Europæus ); -- so named from the use of its wood for goads, skewers, and shoe pegs. Called also spindle tree.