Firewood
['faɪəwʊd] or ['faɪɚwʊd]
Definition
(noun.) wood used for fuel; 'they collected and cut their own firewood'.
Typist: Shane--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Wood for fuel.
Inputed by Addie
Examples
- This accounts for the phenomenon of the weaker of the two usually having a bundle of firewood thrust between its jaws in hot weather. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Without the warmth of the sun seeds could not sprout and develop into the mighty trees which yield firewood. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- I call myself the Samson of the firewood guillotine. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The copse shall be firewood ere five years elapse. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- One is reminded of Palissy's recklessness, when in his efforts to make the enamel melt on his pottery he used the very furniture of his home for firewood. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
Typist: Shelley