Drift-wood on a river.
1822. There are two short carrying places in this distance, occasioned by flood-wood.—Mass. Spy, Feb. 6.
1839. The major part of the men were what they call here flood-wood, that is, of all sizes and heights—a term suggested by the pieces of wood borne down by the freshets of the river, and which are of all sorts, sizes, and lengths.—Marryat, ‘Diary in America,’ i. 229. (N.E.D.) (Italics in the original.)
1860. I dreamed that there was an awful flood, and that the flood-wood had stopped up the stream.—H. C. Kimball at the Mormon Tabernacle, Oct. 6: ‘Journal of Discourses,’ viii. 251.
