noun
Etymology
Origin of touchwood
Example Sentences
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As he lifted his smouldering stick of touchwood and blew on it, he caught sight of me for the first time.
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
Glaring at me, he rushed to the cannon, knocking it askew in his haste, and thrust the touchwood against the fuse.
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
Within the House his captors searched him, coming upon the tinder box, touchwood, and Winter's watch—things which were to bear heavy evidence against the prisoner.
From The Fifth of November A Romance of the Stuarts by Bentley, Charles S.
Circling her waist she wore a girdle of touchwood, and attached to it a great skin pouch, in which she kept the charms which she used when she was practising her sorcery.
From The True Story Book by Lang, Andrew
“Why, take the wasps’ nest in that old touchwood tree.
From Hollowdell Grange Holiday Hours in a Country Home by Fenn, George Manville
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