Crossword clues for briarwood
The Collaborative International Dictionary
briarwood \briarwood\ n. wood from the hard woody root of the briar Erica arborea; used to make tobacco pipes.
Syn: brierwood.
Wiktionary
n. (taxlink Erica arborea species noshow=1), (vern: tree heath), an ericaceous flowering plant.
WordNet
n. wood from the hard woody root of the briar Erica arborea; used to make tobacco pipes [syn: brierwood, brier-wood]
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 26
Land area (2000): 0.220479 sq. miles (0.571037 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.220479 sq. miles (0.571037 sq. km)
FIPS code: 09320
Located within: North Dakota (ND), FIPS 38
Location: 46.786481 N, 96.794404 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 58104
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Briarwood
Housing Units (2000): 275
Land area (2000): 0.110728 sq. miles (0.286783 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.110728 sq. miles (0.286783 sq. km)
FIPS code: 09532
Located within: Kentucky (KY), FIPS 21
Location: 38.278337 N, 85.591548 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Briarwood
Wikipedia
Briarwood can refer to:
- Briar root wood ( tree heath), a type of wood used for making smoking pipes
Briarwood, formerly Briarwood–Van Wyck Boulevard or Van Wyck Boulevard , is a local station on the IND Queens Boulevard Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of 84th Drive, Main Street, Queens Boulevard, and the Van Wyck Expressway, in Briarwood, Queens, bordering Kew Gardens, it is served by the at all times and the at all times except rush hours and middays.
Briarwood is a neighborhood in central Little Rock, Arkansas. The neighborhood includes a number of subdivisions developed during the 1950s and early 1960s. Its boundaries are West Markham Street to the north, Interstate 630 to the south, University Avenue to the east and Cunningham Lake Road to the west.
More information can be found at the neighborhood association web page.
Commercial redevelopment has started in the neighborhood. On the east side, the University Mall (built as an enclosed mall in 1967) was demolished in the spring of 2008 and the site was scheduled to be redeveloped and opened as the Park Avenue lifestyle center in October, 2009. But, due to the recession, the project is now postponed indefinitely. However, residential redevelopment continues. Many Briarwood homes have been recently updated with double-glazed windows and up-to-date baths and kitchens.
Briarwood is a historic home located at Charleston, West Virginia. It was designed in the 1920s by English-born architect Fred Crowthers for Dr. Rhuell Hampton Merrill, the minister of the Kanawha Presbyterian Church from 1898 to 1907. The English Tudor style home features varying roof lines and asymmetrical massing.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984 as part of the South Hills Multiple Resource Area.
Briarwood, also known as Bingham House, is a historic home located at Virginia Beach, Virginia. It was built in 1932, and is a two-story, 6,000 square foot, Tudor Revival style brick dwelling. It features steeply pitched gabled and hipped roof elements clad in historic slate shingles as well as three corbelled brick chimneys.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.
Usage examples of "briarwood".
They didn't blame her for Briarwood, since it had been built before she had become Queen of Chaillot, but they did blame her, bitterly, for her blindness.
Sadi had threatened her when Jaenelle had been put in Briarwood for the last time, had given her a taste of the grave.
Jaenelle's stays at Briarwood might have weakened an already fragile stability, but the child's eccentricities had been the reason why she had decided to send the girl to Briarwood in the first place.
Jaenelle's panic when the males from Briarwood started fighting the defenses Surreal had created in the corridors leading to the Altar.
How many of the children who were sent to Briarwood survived any of you?
And Jaenelle, with the horrors of Briarwood in her past, would never yield that way.
Arriving at Briarwood in an official car, complete with escort and the whole brass band, wouldn't exactly contribute to the low profile I'm trying to maintain.
It wasn't easy for a uniformed admiral of the Royal Manticoran Navy, escorted by three uniformed bodyguards, to pass unnoticed anywhere, but confidentiality was often something Briarwood had to take into consideration.
But Honor didn't have time to complete all the arrangements with Briarwood before she had to deploy to Trevor's Star.
Something which, perhaps, you might have told me before I went to Briarwood myself?
Franz Illescue's voice was flat, almost calm, with a lack of emphasis and exclamation points which rang alarm bells in every member of the Briarwood Reproduction Center's senior staff.
Franz Illescue walked stolidly across the Briarwood lobby, ignoring the shouted questions.
Franz Illescue said stiffly, "on behalf of Briarwood Reproduction Center, I offer you my sincere and personal apologies for our inexcusable violation of your confidentiality.
Honor stood in the Briarwood foyer, facing Illescue, and tasted his genuine remorse.
Still, he and Briarwood had seemed a bit nonplussed by the notion of having a pair of six-limbed, furry arboreals in attendance during a birthing.