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{{cite-book, author=Umberto Quattrocchi, title=CRC World Dictionary of Medicinal and Poisonous Plants: Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms, Synonyms, and Etymology, location=Boca Raton, Fla., publisher={{w, CRC Press}}, 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
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See also
Mancona barkEtymology
, leaf#noun, leaves, and flower#noun, flower of the ordeal tree Erythrophleum suaveolens{{refn, group=n, name=n1, From {{cite-book, author=P[aul Hermann Wilhelm] Taubert, authorlink=Paul Hermann Wilhelm Taubert, editor={{w, Wilhelm Engelmann}}, 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 {{unknown, en, nocap=1}} (probably african) origin + wood.{{R:Merriam-Webster Online}}Notes
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Scrabble US
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Scrabble
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Words with Friends
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The word Sassywood is worth 16 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends