wooden

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

WOODEN, adjective [from wood.] 1. Made of wood; consisting of wood; as a wooden box; a wooden leg; a wooden horse. 2. Clumsy; awkward. When a bold man is put out of countenance, he makes a very wooden figure on it.
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