Touchwood
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Touchwood is decayed wood used for tinder. The phrase "touch wood" is another way of describing knocking on wood. The terms may also refer to:
Geography in Canada
[edit]- Touchwood Hills, a range of hills in Saskatchewan
- Rural Municipality of Touchwood No. 248, Saskatchewan
- Touchwood (electoral district) a former provincial electoral district which was merged to create Last Mountain-Touchwood in 1975
- Touchwood Hills Post Provincial Park a provincial park and historic site in Saskatchewan
- Touchwood Lake (Alberta)
- Touchwood Lake (Manitoba)
Business
[edit]- Touchwood Pacific Partners, an American film financing partnership founded by The Walt Disney Company
- Touchwood, Solihull, a shopping centre in the West Midlands of England
Culture
[edit]- Touch Wood, a 1934 play by English writer Dodie Smith
- Lord and Lady Touchwood, characters in the 1693 play The Double Dealer by English playwright William Congreve
- Mr. Touchwood, a character in the 1823 novel Saint Ronan's Well by Scottish writer Walter Scott
- "Touchwood (Forest Mix)", a song by Tangerine Dream on the 1996 album The Dream Mixes