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  Blackwood

  noun

  William, 1776–1834, English publisher.
• blackwood
  blackwood

  noun

  a tall Australian acacia tree, A. melanoxylon , having small clusters of flowers and curved pods and yielding highly valued black timber

Blackwood

American  

[blak-wood] / ˈblækˌwʊd /

noun

1. William, 1776–1834, English publisher.

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blackwood ¹ British  

/ ˈblækˌwʊd /

noun

1. Also called: Sally Wattle.  a tall Australian acacia tree, A. melanoxylon , having small clusters of flowers and curved pods and yielding highly valued black timber

2. any of various trees or shrubs of the leguminous genus Dalbergia , esp D. melanoxylon (of Africa) or D. latifolia (of India), yielding black wood used for carving and musical instruments

3. the wood of any of these trees

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Blackwood ² British  

/ ˈblækˌwʊd /

noun

1. bridge a conventional bidding sequence of four and five no-trumps, which are requests to the partner to show aces and kings respectively

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Blackwood ³ British  

/ ˈblækˌwʊd /

noun

1. Algernon ( Henry ). 1869–1951, British novelist and short-story writer; noted for his supernatural tales

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Etymology

Origin of Blackwood

C20: named after Easeley F. Blackwood , its American inventor

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Sinead said she had asked Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust - which cared for Calocane before discharging him months before the deadly attacks - whether they had shared his medical records with Blackwood.

From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2026

Wanting more than a "small town life", Chanel, 28, moved from Blackwood, Caerphilly county, to Richmond, Melbourne, in August 2022 at the age of 25.

From BBC ● Dec. 27, 2025

There are at least 14 known subsets, or “cliques,” with names such as Ballista Street, Blackwood Street, Northam Street and Dial Avenue, taken from areas where leaders live.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2025

Both Margaret and Stewart said they felt frustrated with Blackwood for a slow response to the problems.

From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2025

"Lord Blackwood and the other survivors are under siege inside Riverrun, surrounded by Jaime's host."

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

Into one of these gaming houses he turned, passing through the blackwood sliding door and climbing the narrow stairway to the floor above.

From Never-Fail Blake by Stringer, Arthur

They laid him under a big blackwood tree, and the doctor put his head on my lap.

From The Moving Finger A Trotting Christmas Eve at Warwingie Lost! The Loss of the "Vanity" Dick Stanesby's Hutkeeper The Yanyilla Steeplechase A Digger's Christmas by Gaunt, Mary

Transparent gauze screens with frames of carved blackwood, ornamented with a fringe representing flowers and giving the text of verses, figured too here and there.

From Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books by Joly, H. Bencraft

Buy good steel knives and forks with blackwood or horn handles.

From Camp and Trail by White, Stewart Edward

Wright, Thomas, 209. printed by william blackwood and sons.

From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by Saintsbury, George