yzer, noun
- Origin:
- Elliptical for yzer hout.
obs.
ironwood sense a.
1847 J. Barrow Autobiog. Memoir 162Next in size was the yzer, or iron-wood (sideroxylon); hassagai-hout (Curtisia faginea).
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