firewood Definition
fire·wood (-wo̵od′)
noun
wood used as fuel
firewood Synonyms
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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