Touchwood

touchwood

1. Wood so decayed as to serve for tinder; spunk, or punk.

2. Dried fungi used as tinder; especially, the polyporus igniarius.

Origin: Probably for tachwood; OE. Tache tinder (of uncertain origin) _ wood.

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