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Beechen   Listen
adjective
Beechen  adj.  Consisting, or made, of the wood or bark of the beech; belonging to the beech. "Plain beechen vessels."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Beechen" Quotes from Famous Books



... us make two striving shepherds sing, With costly wagers for the victory, Under Menalcas judge; while one doth bring A carven bowl well wrought of beechen tree, Praising it by the story; or the frame, Or want of use, or skilful ...
— The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) - Volume I. • Theophilus Cibber

... Dryad known! The oak-crowned Sisters and their chaste-eyed Queen, Satyrs and Sylvan boys, were seen Peeping from forth their alleys green. Brown Exercise rejoiced to hear, And Sport leaped up, and seized his beechen spear. ...
— MacMillan's Reading Books - Book V • Anonymous

... sight may well choose between air and beechen logs," returned the other, stopping at the palisadoes, and in a place that was concealed from any prying eyes within the works, by triple and quadruple barriers of wood. Feeling in his girdle, he then drew forth something ...
— The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish • James Fenimore Cooper



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