Definitions For Sassywood

Noun

SASSYWOOD (uncountable) A form of trial by ordeal in liberia, typically involving a suspect#noun, suspect drink#verb, drinking a poisonous concoction made from the bark#noun, bark of the ordeal tree Erythrophleum guineense, Erythrophleum ivorense, or Erythrophleum suaveolens, year=2012, page=1645, pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=YC_lAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA1645, isbn=978-1-4200-8044-5. (called sassy bark); by extension, other forms of trial by ordeal such as applying a heated#adjective, heated machete to the suspect's leg#noun, legs, or dip#verb, dipping the suspect's hand#noun, hand into hot oil#noun, oil. The ordeal tree itself, the bark of which is used in the sassywood procedure.

Alternative forms

sasawood sasswood

Related terms

sassy bark

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See also

Mancona bark

Etymology

, leaf#noun, leaves, and flower#noun, flower of the ordeal tree Erythrophleum suaveolens, title=Leguminosae, series=Natürliche Pflanzenfamilien, seriesvolume=vol. III, no. 3, location=Leipzig, publisher=Wilhelm Engelmann, year=1891, section=figure 75, sectionurl=http://biolib.mpipz.mpg.de/taubert/bilder_high/fig_075.html, oclc=180040095.]] From sassy, of (probably african) origin + wood.

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