Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
coachwood . - noun Any wood used in lighting a fire; kindlings; especially, in the southern United States, very resinous pine wood.
- noun The ruddy duck, Erismatura rubida: so called from its toughness.
- noun An inappropriate colonial name for the Australian tree Acacia Melanoxylon, more properly called
blackwood .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun 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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of various trees with pale-coloured
wood , especially the Australian tree Acacia melanoxylon. - noun North America Wood used to
light afire ; also a tree from which one obtains such wood.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun tall Australian acacia yielding highly valued black timber
Etymologies
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Examples
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This mill is constructed of two large flat wooden cylinders, formed like mill-stones, with channels or furrows cut therein, diverging in an oblique direction from the centre to the circumference, made of a heavy and exceedingly hard timber, called lightwood, which is the knots of the pitch pine.
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A large platform, used for sunning wheat and seed cotton, was arranged by the negroes for their dance, and several wagon-loads of resinous pine -- known as lightwood -- were placed around about it in little heaps, so that the occasion might lack no element of brilliancy.
Nights With Uncle Remus Joel Chandler Harris 1878
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A large platform, used for sunning wheat and seed cotton, was arranged by the negroes for their dance, and several wagon-loads of resinous pine -- known as lightwood -- were placed around about it in little heaps, so that the occasion might lack no element of brilliancy.
Nights With Uncle Remus Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation Joel Chandler Harris 1878
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The floor was of the bare earth, covered in patches with loose plank of various descriptions, and littered over with billets of "lightwood," unwashed cooking utensils, two or three cheap stools, a pine settee -- made from the rough log and hewn smooth on the upper side -- a full-grown bloodhound, two younger canines, and nine half-clad juveniles of the flax-head species.
Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time James R. Gilmore
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The rustic maiden, slow and sweet in ungrammatical speech, who helps plant corn by day, and makes picturesque the interior of the cabin in the glare of "lightwood" torches by night; turns men's heads and wins children's hearts in Charles Egbert Craddock's tale, _The
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853
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States pine-fat with resin is called lightwood, and is used for the same purpose. "
Among the Trees at Elmridge Ella Rodman Church
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Tar was made from lightwood, which was the heart of the dead pine.
Archive 2010-06-01 2010
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Tar was made from lightwood, which was the heart of the dead pine.
John 2010
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He set the stub in the three-pronged holder, then lit it with a stick of lightwood from the hearth.
Lord of the Isles 1997
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Fire rolled out of the fire place and lighted a pile of rich lightwood and when Mr. Davis and family awaked they had barely time to escape from the house.
Diary of Samuel A. Agnew : September 27, 1863-June 30, 1864, 1957
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