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firewood

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Wood used as fuel.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Wood for fuel.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Wood for fuel.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Wood intended to be burned, typically for heat.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun wood used for fuel

Etymologies

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fire +‎ wood

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Examples

  • Honestly, firewood is a lot cheaper if you buy it by the cord instead of the volume. sammieb51

    McCain: Palin bills were for 'troopergate' 2009

  • In my area, firewood is easily available and I get logs delivered in bulk.

    vert - French Word-A-Day 2008

  • Chopping down a tree a day for firewood is better for the environment than a running air conditioner.

    Archive 2007-05-01 2007

  • The air is chill with a strong aroma of wet, fallen leaves as I carry a few old-lady sized loads of split firewood from the stack to the basement cache so we'll be warm tonight.

    2006 October - Telic Thoughts 2006

  • I find this interesting that Pete has seen so many scorpions and I have only seen two introduced, I believe, through the purchase of firewood from a local vendor.

    pet's critters 2003

  • Oh, and I have seen only two scorpions since coming here two+years ago and they were both brought onto our property in firewood stored previously in a rural field.

    pet's critters 2003

  • I would imagine that firewood is a bit hard to come by on the Texas border. jennifer rose

    The Pressure Cooker 2003

  • Then I called the firewood people and ordered another tonne (or do we spell it "ton"?) of wood for saturday.

    sierrazen Diary Entry sierrazen 2004

  • In the morning they brought him a brass axe and said: "Our chief likes rocks for his fire; go and cut firewood from the rocks and bring it tied up in bundles."

    The King of the Snakes and Other Folk-Lore Stories From Uganda 1922

  • He criticized increasing rate of firewood, which is selling at 300 rupees per mound.

    1500 Border Police would be recruited in CHitral DCO said 2009

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