Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A box for holding firewood.
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- noun A
bin in whichwood is stored.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Claire pats her pockets and kicks aside the newspapers scattered beside the woodbin.
Healer Carol Wiley Cassella 2010
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The woodbin was filled, and even a five-gallon can of kerosene.
Just Patty 1911
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Vassili, seating himself on the woodbin, said with a forced smile:
Twenty-six and One and Other Stories Maksim Gorky 1902
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In it you will find a large multi-door stove with woodbin and working fires inside, a grill with spitted meat over a fire, cabinets, baking bread, sculpted utensils, meat and vegetables.
Fashion World of SL 2009
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It was not at its best at present — the mattress on the bed was bare, as the only blankets had been wrapped around Roggit’s remains atop the pyre, and the woodbin and water bucket were empty as Tobas had not paid much attention to the details of everyday life since the catastrophe of Roggit’s demise.
With a Single Spell Watt-Evans, Lawrence, 1954- 1987
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