hooden

Etymology 1
or a reduced form of hood-end(s).

Adjective

 * 1)  Pertaining to a hood (end of a plank, which fits into the rabbet).
 * 2) * 1882, Great Britain. Education Department. Department of Science and Art, Examination Papers for Science Schools and Classes, page 21:
 * Show by a sketch how the tenons in the body-post of a screw ship should be placed in relation to the rabbet of the hooden ends. Give the reason for so placing them.
 * 1) * 1929, Madras (India), Diary and Consultation Book, 1672-1756:
 * Judging by the greatness of the leake, it must have been some Butt or Hoodens end started her lying swadling with her lee Gunnhill in the Sea, &amp; almost ungovernable by her helm, and that it was impossible to keep her up long enough to get ...
 * Judging by the greatness of the leake, it must have been some Butt or Hoodens end started her lying swadling with her lee Gunnhill in the Sea, &amp; almost ungovernable by her helm, and that it was impossible to keep her up long enough to get ...

Etymology 2
Unclear; see,.