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cordwood

WordNet
  1. (n) cordwood
    firewood cut and stacked in cords; wood sold by the cord
Usage in the news

After meeting with Town Councilor Jessica Rapp Grassetti, Cotuit Fire Chief Chris Olsen and residents of Cotuit, Town Manager Tom Lynch has decided to hold a public hearing on closing Cordwood Road to vehicles. barnstablepatriot.com

How to Build a Cordwood Cutoff Saw . motherearthnews.com

Logging cordwood is a year-round, labor-intensive occupation for New Hampshire's Paul Poulin and son Brandon. yankeemagazine.com

Nope , Just Cordwood. nytimes.com

At Golden Gate Bank, the writer, in a flush of enthusiasm if not originality, said the stripes were "stacked up like cordwood". saltwatersportsman.com

Usage in literature

Because of that I was on the cordwood trying to find courage to go farther. "Laddie" by Gene Stratton Porter

During the afternoon there had been piled truckload after truckload of cordwood at the end of the company streets. "At Plattsburg" by Allen French

There's a shack where two fellows cutting cordwood camp. "Prescott of Saskatchewan" by Harold Bindloss

Along the Gulf front human bodies are floating around like cordwood. "Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror" by Richard Linthicum

Empty cartridge cases were strewn about and a pile of unused ammunition was stacked up like cordwood. "The Note-Book of an Attache" by Eric Fisher Wood

They are no more edible than cordwood or hemp ropes. "Under the Maples" by John Burroughs

Drinkwater was obliged to throw overboard a load of cordwood to make room for the rescued passengers and crew and their possessions. "Glimpses of the Past" by W. O. Raymond

He come at us seven times before we could git that little fact through his head, and we piled up his dead like cordwood. "Si Klegg, Book 6 (of 6) Si And Shorty, With Their Boy Recruits, Enter On The Atlanta Campaign" by John McElroy

He gathered the sticks of cordwood from the floor and piled them neatly to their stacks again. "The Brain" by Alexander Blade

Somehow it must be made up, and the only way he saw to do it was to cut cordwood. "The Land of Strong Men" by Arthur M. Chisholm