rare. [f. WOOD sb.1 + -WARD(S.] Towards or to the wood. † From the woodward: away from the wood.

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1621.  Lady M. Wroth, Urania, 238. An other Lady … running from the Wood-ward.

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a. 1849.  J. C. Mangan, Poems (1859), 371. Rury rode woodwards.

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1893.  N. Gale, Country Muse, Ser. II. 9. When the hush … brings the pigeons woodward.

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