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I think 'wood' for 'erection' is an Americanism. Is it a recent one?
Specifically, would it have been known in Britain in the fifties?
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But you see, I can believe a thing without understanding it.
It's all a matter of training.
--Lord Peter Wimsey in Dorothy L Sayers' _Have His Carcase_
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