Touchwood is decayed wood used for tinder. The phrase "touch wood" is another way of describing

knocking on wood Knocking on wood (also phrased touching wood) is an apotropaic tradition of literally touching, tapping, or knocking on wood, or merely stating that one is doing or intending to do so, in order to avoid "tempting fate" after making a favorable pre ...

. The terms may also refer to

Geography in Canada

Touchwood Hills Touchwood Hills are a range of hills located in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. The hills are composed of the "Big" Touchwood Hills and the Little Touchwood Hills. Together they are referred to as the Touchwood Uplands. The hills are i ...

, a range of hills in Saskatchewan * Rural Municipality of Touchwood No. 248, Saskatchewan *

Touchwood (electoral district) Touchwood is a former provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of the province of Saskatchewan, Canada. Located south of the Wynyard district in east-central Saskatchewan, it was centred on the Touchwood Hills. This constituenc ...

a former provincial electoral district which was merged to create Last Mountain-Touchwood in 1975 *

Touchwood Hills Post Provincial Park Touchwood Hills Post Provincial Park is the location of a former Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) fur trading post that existed from 1879 to 1909 in the Touchwood Uplands of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. In 1986, the site was designated a ...

a provincial park and historic site in Saskatchewan *

Touchwood Lake (Alberta) Touchwood Lake is a lake in northeastern Alberta. It is located in Lakeland Provincial Park Lakeland Provincial Park and Lakeland Provincial Recreation Area are located east of Lac La Biche, Alberta, Canada, in Lac La Biche County. The park c ...

Touchwood Lake (Manitoba) Touchwood Lake is a lake in the Hayes River drainage basin in Census Division No. 22 - Thompson-North Central, Northern Region, Manitoba, Canada. The lake is about long and wide and lies at an elevation of . The primary inflows (clockwise fro ...

Business

Touchwood Pacific Partners Touchwood Pacific Partners I was an American film financing limited partnership formed by The Walt Disney Company in 1990 for its then three production companies, Walt Disney Pictures, Touchstone Pictures and Hollywood Pictures, but owned by Yamai ...

, an American film financing partnership founded by The Walt Disney Company *

Touchwood, Solihull Touchwood is a shopping centre in Solihull, West Midlands, United Kingdom. History Opened in 2001 and costing £110 million to build, the centre was built on the former car parks behind the High Street. Around 251,000 cubic metres of earth ...

, a shopping centre in the West Midlands of England

Culture

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Touch Wood Knocking on wood (also phrased touching wood) is an apotropaic tradition of literally touching, tapping, or knocking on wood, or merely stating that one is doing or intending to do so, in order to avoid "tempting fate" after making a favorable pre ...

'', a 1934 play by English writer Dodie Smith * Lord and Lady Touchwood, characters in the 1693 play ''

The Double Dealer ''The Double Dealer'' is a comic play written by English playwright William Congreve, first produced in 1693. Henry Purcell set it to music. Characters and plot This comedy sees character Mellefont, nephew and prospective heir of Lord Touch ...

'' by English playwright William Congreve * Mr. Touchwood, a character in the 1823 novel ''

Saint Ronan's Well ''Saint Ronan's Well'' is one of the Waverley novels by Sir Walter Scott. Set in a fashionable spa in the Scottish Borders, it is the only novel he wrote with a 19th-century setting. Composition and sources The composition of ''Saint Ronan's Wel ...

'' by Scottish writer Walter Scott * "Touchwood (Forest Mix)", a song by Tangerine Dream on the 1996 album ''

The Dream Mixes ''The Dream Mixes'' is the first remix album by Tangerine Dream and their fifty-second overall. The album is a collection of extant Tangerine Dream songs remixed with a dance beat by Jerome Froese and is the first in a series that includes ''Tim ...

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