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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
firewood
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 collecting firewood to heat the house and cook rice.
▪ Among the poor, it is women and children who collect firewood, and they seldom cut down trees.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A pile of freshly chopped firewood stood next to the cabin door.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But in reality, none of these programmes is helping to increase the production of firewood.
▪ Chopping wood, sawing logs, binding firewood.
▪ Cutting and splitting fifty cords of firewood.
▪ Families in the hills not only consume 25 percent more energy than those on the plains, they also consume more firewood.
▪ He served on the school board for ten years and donated firewood.
▪ He was taking firewood and a large cauldron into the smithy that adjoined the cottage.
▪ Then it was time to gather firewood, fetch water and cook.
▪ There were runs on bread, milk, firewood, rock salt and snow shovels.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Firewood

Firewood \Fire"wood`\ (f[imac]r"w[oo^]d`), n. Wood for fuel.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
firewood

also fire-wood, late 14c., from fire (n.) + wood (n.).

Wiktionary
firewood

n. wood intended to be burned, typically for heat.

WordNet
firewood

n. wood used for fuel; "they collected and cut their own firewood"

Wikipedia
Firewood

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 (dry) or unseasoned (fresh/wet). It can be classed as hardwood or softwood.

Firewood is a renewable resource. However, demand for this fuel can outpace its ability to regenerate on local and regional level. Good forestry practices and improvements in devices that use firewood can improve the local wood supplies.

Firewood (album)

Firewood is the second album from the Swedish doom metal band Witchcraft. The album was released in 2005 by Rise Above Records. At roughly 8:50 in to the last track "Attention!", there is a cover of the Pentagram song "When the Screams Come". The vinyl edition does not include "When the Screams Come", but does include a bonus track entitled "The Invisible". This track also appears on the Japanese version released by Leaf Hound Records.

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.