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noun Veterinary Pathology.

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Origin of wooden tongue

An Americanism dating back to 1910–15

Words nearby wooden tongue

wooden-headed, Wooden Horse, wooden Indian, wooden shoe, wooden spoon, wooden tongue, woodentop, woodenware, wood fern, woodfree, wood frog

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How to use wooden tongue in a sentence

His sled had a wooden tongue in it and it slanted back over the girls' heads.
The Golden Road|Lucy Maud Montgomery

British Dictionary definitions for wooden tongue

wooden tongue

woody tongue

noun

vet science the nontechnical name for actinobacillosis

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