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vb. (en-pasttouch wood)
Usage examples of "touched wood".
It swayed and dipped under the weight, but the waiting crews were running it forward as soon as the wheels touched wood, a sound like thunder over the loosely fastened planks.
The feet of the starboard side helmsman touched wood again as the extreme angle of turn was relaxed.
The bullet had touched wood and Mark felt an instant of utter dismay.
The rock, precisely intercepted in midair, shattered into a hundred screaming fragments, none of which touched Wood.
Jamie remembered how he had shivered and touched wood himself just in case.
As soon as Lipitero shut the blade off, Timka plummeted to the quarterdeck, shifted to the cat-weasel the instant her feet touched wood.
He touched wood with his toes to one side of the ladder: he had found the floor.