Bog-oak
oak or other wood preserved in peat bogs.
Historical Examples
The Socialist Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger Gull
Strange Stories of Colonial Days Various
Punch – Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) Various
Ireland as It Is Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)
Byways of Ghost-Land Elliott O’Donnell
Old Irish Glass Graydon Stannus
The Cathedral Towns and Intervening Places of England, Ireland and Scotland: Thomas W. Silloway
Notes on the Fenland T. McKenny Huges
noun
oak or other wood found preserved in peat bogs; bogwood
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