Definition of "elmwood" [elmwood]

• Hard tough wood of an elm tree; used for e.g. implements and furniture (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "So I thought until I was stuck in traffic for a good hour and a half on elmwood, as drunk irish frat guys screamed "HEY" to me, or someone else in the road."
• "He sat in his elmwood chair, rubbing its arm, declaring it the finest thing he had ever owned and lost."
• "He went stealthily, though any noise his shoes made on the rungs was masked by the creak of the great pine masts which protruded down through all the decks to be rooted in the elmwood keel."