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Cordwood

noun

Firewood cut and stacked in cords; wood sold by the cord.

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"Cordwood" Quotes from Famous Books

... though, it was very real, as Ichabod learned. He had prepared for winter, by hauling a huge pile of cordwood and stacking it, as a protection to windward, the full length of the little cabin, thinking the spot always accessible; but ...

— A Breath of Prairie and other stories • Will Lillibridge

... confusing masses in all the streets. Great piles of human bodies, dead animals, rotting vegetation, household furniture, and fragments of the houses themselves, are piled in confused heaps right in the main streets of the city. Along the Gulf front human bodies are floating around like cordwood." ...

— Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror • Richard Linthicum

... already noted that Morehead did not appear to be much of a place. Indeed, beyond the piles of cordwood, and a few scattered cabins, there did not seem to ...

— The House Boat Boys • St. George Rathborne

... boy had tripped and fallen. Bettles stopped long enough to grip him by the slack of his furs, then headed for a pile of cordwood already occupied by a number of his comrades. Yellow Fang, doubling after one of the dogs, came leaping back. The fleeing animal, free of the rabies, but crazed with fright, whipped Bettles off his feet ...

— The Son of the Wolf • Jack London

Words linked to "Cordwood" : firewood