vbl. sb. [OE. wudung, f. wudian: see WOOD v.2 and -ING1.]
1. The action of procuring or taking in wood for fuel, esp. on board a vessel; also, feeding a fire with wood.
c. 1000. Ælfric, Hom., II. 222. Þæt Israhela folc ʓeðafode þæt sume ða hæðenan on heora ðeowle leofodon, to wudunge and to wæterunge.
1613. J. Saris, Voy. Japan (Hakl. Soc.), 69. I gaue leaue to as manye as would to goe ashoare, hauing done watring and wooding.
1745. P. Thomas, Jrnl. Anson’s Voy., 116. Besides our constant Employment in Wooding and Watering.
1866. Howells, Venetian Life, 35. By dint of constant wooding I contrived to warm mine [sc. stove].
1875. Bedford, Sailor’s Pocket Bk., v. (ed. 2), 145. Notice any convenient creeks or rivers for wooding or watering.
attrib. 1789. Portlock, Voy., 314. At this island I would advise the watering and wooding business to be done.
1804. Gillespie, in A. Duncan, Nelson (1806), 222. The wooding and watering parties.
1863. Russell, Diary North & South, I. 269. The scenery and the scenes were just the same as yesterday’s—high banks, cotton-slides, wooding stations.
2. The action of planting ground with trees; concr. a plantation or collection of trees. Sc.
1788. Picken, Poems, 76. The mantlan ivy clings To wooding in the grove.
1790. A. Wilson, in Poems & Lit. Prose (1876), II. 106. Deep in lanely woodings lost.
1827. Steuart, Planter’s G. (1828), 355. The wooding of two acres of ground … as a Close Plantation.
1875. W. M‘Ilwraith, Guide to Wigtownshire, 103. Much of the wooding which gives variety … to the landscape.
