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Lightwood

Lightwood \Light"wood`\ (l[imac]t"w[oo^]d`), n. Pine wood abounding in pitch, used for torches in the Southern United States; pine knots, dry sticks, and the like, for kindling a fire quickly or making a blaze.

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lightwood

n. tall Australian acacia yielding highly valued black timber [syn: Acacia melanoxylon]

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Lightwood

Lightwood is a suburb of Stoke-On-Trent, Staffordshire, England. It is located to the south of Longton, and Lightwood Road runs from here to Rough Close.

The area gives its name to the Lightwood Hoard, a substantial collection of Roman coins discovered buried in the garden of a house on Lightwood Road in 1960.

Though containing mostly private housing, the area includes a Methodist chapel constructed in 1816 which is a Grade 2 listed building.

Lightwood (disambiguation)

Lightwood is a suburb of Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England.

Lightwood may also refer to:

  • Acacia implexa, Australian tree
  • Lightwood, Derbyshire, location in England
  • Lightwood, Shropshire, location in England
  • Lightwood House, plantation house in Virginia, United States
  • Lightwood, 1939 novel by Brainard Cheney

Usage examples of "lightwood".

Oh, we had big chunk of lightwood en cook meat en hoecake en collards right dere in de woods.

There was a small fire on the hearth and a billet of lightwood stuck up on a firedog for the only illumination.