sassywood (English, noun)
expansion: sassywood (usually uncountable, plural sassywoods)
Senses:
glosses: A form of trial by ordeal in Liberia, typically involving a suspect drinking a poisonous concoction made from the bark of the ordeal tree Erythrophleum guineense, Erythrophleum ivorense, or Erythrophleum suaveolens (called sassy bark); by extension, other forms of trial by ordeal such as applying a heated machete to the suspect's legs, or dipping the suspect's hand into hot oil.
tags: uncountable
usually
glosses: The ordeal tree itself, the bark of which is used in the sassywood procedure.
tags: uncountable
usually
Forms:
form: sassywoods
tags: plural
form: sasawood
tags: alternative
form: sasswood
tags: alternative