In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
blackwood, blackwood tree
(noun) any of several hardwood trees yielding very dark-colored wood
blackwood
(noun) very dark wood of any of several blackwood trees
Source: WordNet® 3.1
blackwood (usually uncountable, plural blackwoods)
(countable) any of several trees yielding a very dark wood
African blackwood (Dalbergia melanoxylon), of Africa
Australian blackwood (Acacia melanoxylon), of eastern Australia
Bombay blackwood (Dalbergia latifolia), of India
(uncountable) the very dark wood of such trees
Blackwood
Any of many places in England, Scotland and the United States.
An English and Scottish habitational surname derived from the placename.
Source: Wiktionary
Black"wood, n.
Definition: A name given to several dark-colored timbers. The East Indian black wood is from the tree Dalbergia latifolia. Balfour.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
10 January 2025
(noun) the act of combining one thing at intervals among other things; “the interspersion of illustrations in the text”
In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.