shittimwood

English

Alternative forms

shittim wood

Etymology

From shittim (plural of "shittah") +‎ wood.

Noun

shittimwood (uncountable)

Wood of the shittim (Vachelia seval).
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus 25:10:
  ¶ And they shall make an Arke of Shittim wood: two cubites and a halfe shalbe the length thereof, and a cubite and an halfe the breadth thereof, and a cubite & a halfe the height thereof.

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