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Materiel vs Warwood - What's the difference?

materiel | warwood |

As nouns the difference between materiel and warwood

is that materiel is military equipment, apparatus, and supplies while warwood is wood used for military materiel, especially in the context of historical warfare.

materiel

English

(wikipedia materiel)

Alternative forms

*

Noun

(en noun)
  • Military equipment, apparatus, and supplies.

    • Usage notes

    ; Not to be confused with: * material

    Anagrams

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    warwood

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • Wood used for military materiel, especially in the context of historical warfare
  • * 1849 , Herman Melville, Mardi
  • *:Sons of battle! Hunters of men!
  • *:Raise high your war-wood !
  • *:Hack away merry men, hack away.
  • * 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
    • Wooden whales, or whales cut in profile out of the small dark slabs of the noble South Sea warwood , are frequently met with in the forecastles of American whalers.
  • *:...little canoes of dark wood, like the rich warwood of his native isle.
  • *1880 , , "Spring and fall to a young child" in T.M. Flormata-Ballesteros, Speech and Oral Communication , page 144, ISBN 9715740693.
  • *:By and by, nor spare a sigh
  • *:Though worlds of warwood leafmeal lie