What is "burnable"

Usage examples of "burnable".

In ancient times, it was said, the folk had employed fire for similar purposes: however, during the Age of Multiplication fire had fallen out of use except for very special purposes, because most burnable substances were far too valuable for other applications.

One hundred of the many hundreds of litters piled with frankincense, myrrh, nard and other costly, burnable aromatics were stacked as a fence between the back row of chariots and the crowd, with shoulder-to-shoulder soldiers as an additional barrier.

In a sense, the burnable rock is the exact opposite of that rock I earlier saw in Balkh, which produces the cloth that will not burn.

The burnable rock will probably never be needed, but just in case this palace should ever come under siege, we will have there an unlimited supply of fuel.

Stacks of cordwood and piles of burnable slash ran higgledy-piggledy up the slope.

More burnable materials, which had been piled into mounds at the opening, were lit in an attempt to keep the frightened animals inside.

The burnable wood had been stacked in the woodshed and the small, brushy debris had been carried around back to be burned.

The protesters had a good fire going this time, made out of pulled-up park benches, trash brought along for the purpose, and whatever else burnable they might find.

We gathered everything that was burnable and dumped it in a heap in the yard.

Blade bundled other burnables together into two torches and they lit both at the fire and proceeded to char the interior.

Elsewhere, Yount was helping Sarah kindle a campfire with some dead weed stalks, and Clover Lee and Magpie Maggie Hag were moving about the lot, bent over, apparently in search of more substantial burnables.

One hundred of the many hundreds of litters piled with frankincense, myrrh, nard and other costly, burnable aromatics were stacked as a fence between the back row of chariots and the crowd, with shoulder-to-shoulder soldiers as an additional barrier.

They lugged home twigs and fir cones for kindling fires, fallen branches, driftwood from the beach to be sawn into logsanything burnable that would keep the hot-water boiler going and the sitting room fire alight.