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firewood Definition

fire·wood (-wo̵od′)

noun

wood used as fuel

firewood Synonyms

firewood

n.

cordwood, kindling, stove-lengths, woodpile; see fuel.

firewood Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • fetch: They have to fetch firewood at least once or twice per week.
  • chop: The type of work expected at Pontefract included sawing logs, chopping firewood or breaking stone.
  • collect: Some may help collect firewood or take the stored firewood from the truck.
  • gather: At first, they scraped a living by gathering firewood.
  • cut: Fifteen of us formed a party cutting firewood for the railroad engines.
  • carry: The Mesolithic hunters may have carried the firewood from lower slopes up to the campsite, which today stands far above the treeline.

Adjective modifier

  • good: They said things like - you're just a bundle of twigs anyway, you'll make good firewood.
  • more: The more firewood we deliver the more logs you get for your money.
  • excellent: Beech is an excellent firewood after a year's seasoning.
  • own: It is sometimes wet, cold and lonely and you have to chop your own firewood!
  • dry: D ) Removal of bark as shown in C often serves a double purpose: to provide dry firewood.

Modifies a noun

  • log: This black canvas firewood log carrier tote bag, allows you to gather wood then place it in your home or hearth.
  • carrier: This black canvas firewood log carrier tote bag, allows you to gather wood then place it in your home or hearth.
  • collection: Aspen stands adjacent to housing may be most vulnerable to firewood collection.
  • production: Further away from London commercial firewood production seems to have been of little or no importance, except in the vicinity of Canterbury.
  • sale: The main source of cash are livestock and firewood sales.

Noun used with modifier

  • cut: While Walter cut firewood, Robin and Roy cleared away the snow, using their snow-shoes as shovels, and prepared their meal.
  • gathering: There was a boy with a crooked leg called Mo who stayed around the camp gathering firewood.

Preposition: from

forest: This book is an ideal resource for anyone who wishes to fell trees and take lumber or firewood from the forest.

Preposition: for

cooking: The Financial View In a barter society, a person may build someone a cabinet in return for firewood for cooking.

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