hooden

== English == === Etymology 1 === From hood +‎ -en or a reduced form of hood-end(s). ==== Adjective ==== hooden (nautical) Pertaining to a hood (end of a plank, which fits into the rabbet). 1882, Great Britain. Education Department. Department of Science and Art, Examination Papers for Science Schools and Classes, page 21: Show by a sketch how the tenons in the body-post of a screw ship should be placed in relation to the rabbet of the hooden ends. Give the reason for so placing them. 1929, Madras (India), Diary and Consultation Book, 1672-1756: Judging by the greatness of the leake, it must have been some Butt or Hoodens end started her lying swadling with her lee Gunnhill in the Sea, & almost ungovernable by her helm, and that it was impossible to keep her up long enough to get ... === Etymology 2 === Unclear; see hooden horse, hoodening. ==== Particle ==== hooden Only used in hooden horse === Anagrams === hooned