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firewood
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also fire-wood , late 14c., from fire (n.) + wood (n.).
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Firewood is any wooden material that is gathered and used for fuel . Generally, firewood is not highly processed and is in some sort of recognizable log or branch form, compared to other forms of wood fuel like pellets or chips. Firewood can be seasoned ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. wood intended to be burned, typically for heat.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Firewood \Fire"wood`\ (f[imac]r"w[oo^]d`), n. Wood for fuel.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB collect ▪ She collected firewood and carried water. ▪ All field-workers took weapons with them, and would venture forth to collect firewood only in large parties. ▪ Her two brothers, aged 8 and 7, spend all their time ...
Usage examples of firewood.
Instead they laboured to bring aboard water, firewood, hogsheads of beer, rum, and lime juice, and cases of wine.
When Ace spotted the old cabin he saw an elderly man about to enter it, his arms full of firewood.
An innocent-looking piece of firewood set off a bundle of aerolite cartridges if anyone picked it up to put it in the stove.
Kumul and Ager entered through the back door carrying armfuls of firewood.
Impoverished Argali could never match such an offer: shovels and awls forged from fine metals, stacks of dried firewood, golden bridle bells, dewhoney and molasses, dried rose-leeks, cobberwheat, tri-grains, and reedflour that poured through your fingers like powdered rubies.
They treated her with respect and kindness, stacking firewood outside her door, fetching water for her, escorting her across the bateau bridge.
The fishing was good and they built a crude raft on which to float across the daily mound of firewood that Bazil collected along the shore.
Mad Binny took command of the room, detailing how the broth should be made and the fish cooked, directing Raina to the woodpile for firewood, and Effie to the storage chest for hard liquor.
I could sleep if I liked, containing a fire-place, in which I could light a fire if I thought fit, but as to procuring firewood or provisions, he left that all to me.
Regent of Defalk, Protector of the Heir, not to mention being Lady of Loiseau, and she had to worry about firewood.
When the witch was off gathering firewood or fetching water, Yvaine would open up his cage and stroke him and talk to him, and, on several occasions, she sang to him, although she could not tell whether anything of Tristran remained in the dormouse, who stared up at her with placid, sleepy eyes, like droplets of black ink, and whose fur was softer than down.
Thousands of different objects are lying in heaps by the harbor: firewood, meat, gabions, sacks of flour, iron, and so on.
He dumped the rest of the firewood from his hod willy-nilly into the box and stumped off.
As deck-hand and rouseabout, as stoker, as cook and steward, as lumper of wood-bales on river-banks, cutter-up of firewood and stower of cargo, John was active and untiring.
Nothing, really, to look at for very long, a ragged square of mossy lawn, fallen cedar needles, copious blackberry, rotting firewood, a mildewed truck canopy, moss-covered roofing shakes.