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Matchwood   Listen
noun
matchwood  n.  
1.
Wood in small pieces or splinters; as, the vessel was beaten to matchwood on the rocks.
Synonyms: splinters.
2.
Wood suitable for making matchsticks.





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"Matchwood" Quotes from Famous Books



... quite empty. We had a cheerful lunch, as there were guns returning from a reconnaissance, and they have adopted a thoughtless habit of coming home past our house. Briefly, from six till two you would have said that the earth was being shivered to matchwood and fine powder. But, alas! man accustoms himself so quickly to all things, that a bombardment to us, unless stones actually tinkle on the roof, is now as ...
— From Capetown to Ladysmith - An Unfinished Record of the South African War • G. W. Steevens
... further warning. The second officer, outside on the bridge, had to cling to a stanchion for his life. Courtenay and Boyle saw two boats wrenched from their davits and carried overboard, while a bulkhead forward was smashed into matchwood. The half-caste quarter-master at the wheel muttered "Madonna!" and tried to ...
— The Captain of the Kansas • Louis Tracy
... legs, with its rider clinging precariously to its perpendicular body as he struggled frantically with the stirrups as if trying to kick free. The animal backed wildly against the frail wooden rail on the left—erected there simply for the safety of pedestrians in the dark. The fence gave way like matchwood, the rearing figure of the horse with its rider balanced on the edge for a moment, then slowly toppled backward amid a rush of loose, falling debris, sheer two hundred feet to the rocky bed of the shallow water of the ...
— The Spoilers of the Valley • Robert Watson
... the basin, and there were tepee poles ready cut, as light and dry as matchwood. Joanne watched them as they put up the tent, and when it was done, and she ...
— The Hunted Woman • James Oliver Curwood


Words linked to "Matchwood" :   fleck, wood, scrap


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