beechen

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
14
Words With Friends
16
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ˈbiːt͡ʃən/

Definition of beechen

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (not-comparable)Consisting or made of the wood or bark of the beech tree.
    “[T]o the altar each man brought some goodly offering, // A beechen cup brimming with milky foam, […]”
    “Now withered lay the hemlock-sheaves, And one by one with sighing sound Whispering fell the beechen leaves In the wintry woodland wavering.”

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Etymology

From Middle English bechen, from Old English bēċen (“made of beechwood, beechen”), Proto-West Germanic *bōkīn, equivalent to beech + -en. Cognate with Dutch beuken (“beechen”).

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