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- noun A
wooden box - noun A box used for the storage of
wood
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Examples
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Camp rule: Shoot a doe for every buck and keep the woodbox full.
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Camp rule: Shoot a doe for every buck and keep the woodbox full.
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Claire gets up and walks to a dark corner of the kitchen while Jory crouches by the woodstove crumpling paper into balls and sorting through the woodbox for smaller pieces.
Healer Carol Wiley Cassella 2010
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Di said she was out when she woke up, and I finally found her in my woodbox.
Feline Update brother_d73 2008
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The woman, as she moved from the woodbox to the fire ring, was an angry obsidian blur.
Vermilion Drift William Kent Krueger 2010
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For decades the U.S. Forest Service sold off so much of its timber that the forest became known as "the woodbox of the Mountain West."
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It was up to me to see that the woodbox in the kitchen was never empty and fill the reservoir on the side of the stove.
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Furthermore, they said, when Ellward remained restless in the bedroom, Shea had gone upstairs and likely hit the older man with "a clift of whitling [split of wood]" he had taken from the woodbox.
Gutenber-e Help Page 2005
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Blaze chopped it and carried it, filling the kitchen woodbox four and five times a day.
Blaze Bachman, Richard 2007
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I noticed that the woodbox next to the kitchen stove was nearly empty and asked if I couldn't fill it for her.
Angel With No Hands Adams, Stephen 2005
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