Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Wood used as fuel.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Wood for fuel.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Wood for fuel.
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- noun
Wood intended to be burned, typically for heat.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun wood used for fuel
Etymologies
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Examples
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Honestly, firewood is a lot cheaper if you buy it by the cord instead of the volume. sammieb51
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In my area, firewood is easily available and I get logs delivered in bulk.
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Chopping down a tree a day for firewood is better for the environment than a running air conditioner.
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The air is chill with a strong aroma of wet, fallen leaves as I carry a few old-lady sized loads of split firewood from the stack to the basement cache so we'll be warm tonight.
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I find this interesting that Pete has seen so many scorpions and I have only seen two introduced, I believe, through the purchase of firewood from a local vendor.
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Oh, and I have seen only two scorpions since coming here two+years ago and they were both brought onto our property in firewood stored previously in a rural field.
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I would imagine that firewood is a bit hard to come by on the Texas border. jennifer rose
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Then I called the firewood people and ordered another tonne (or do we spell it "ton"?) of wood for saturday.
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In the morning they brought him a brass axe and said: "Our chief likes rocks for his fire; go and cut firewood from the rocks and bring it tied up in bundles."
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He criticized increasing rate of firewood, which is selling at 300 rupees per mound.
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