Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Cut wood sold by the cord for fuel; specifically, firewood cut in lengths of four feet, so as to be readily measured by the cord when piled.
- noun Wood conveyed to market on board of vessels, instead of being floated.
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Examples
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I've never gotten one back, those pass right through anything short of cord-wood that I have hit.
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I shot some cord-wood once from about 4 feet away to see if I could get the bullets back, they went almost to the end (24 & 28 inches of penetration) in solid, dry birch.
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Now hunter have far more accessible deer to harvest and the farmers are not (allegedly) piling dead carcasses up like cord-wood to protect their crops.
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Now hunter have far more accessible deer to harvest and the farmers are not (allegedly) piling dead carcasses up like cord-wood to protect their crops.
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I shot some cord-wood once from about 4 feet away to see if I could get the bullets back, they went almost to the end (24 & 28 inches of penetration) in solid, dry birch.
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I've never gotten one back, those pass right through anything short of cord-wood that I have hit.
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All of this while the bodies of black Cincinnatians killed by other black Cincinnatians pile up like cord-wood.
Kabaka Oba Shot At City Hall Nathaniel Livingston 2006
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This is Bush's "Victory Strategy"; stacking one deception on top of another like cord-wood and hoping the wary public will believe it; hoping they'll approve another zillion dollars for earth-poisoning ordinance; hoping they'll send another 2,000 sons and daughters into the Iraqi meat-grinder; hoping they'll sign off on the genocidal attack on Iraqi civilians.
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She looked doubtfully at him, at the low shanty, the yard that was littered with cord-wood, moldy planks, a hoopless wash-tub.
Main Street 2004
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The thought of the dinner-table with candles upon it (his idea); the thought of Lillian in a trailing gown of pale-blue or green silk — he liked her in those colors; the thought of a large fireplace flaming with solid lengths of cord-wood, and Lillian snuggling in his arms, gripped his immature imagination.
The Financier 2004
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