beechen
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 14
- Words With Friends
- 16
- Letters
- 7
/ˈbiːt͡ʃən/
Definition of beechen
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
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(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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