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firewood

UK/ˈfaɪ.ə(ɹ).wʊd/US/ˈfaɪ.ɚ.wʊd/
nounB1+Common in everyday speech and writing · #6,840 of 15,258neutral

Firewood is the logs cut and stored for burning. Chop firewood, a stack of firewood, dry firewood.

Seasoning is the whole thing: wet wood spends its heat boiling off water, smokes badly and lines the chimney with tar, so a year or two under cover is the standard advice. Hardwoods burn longer and softwoods light faster. Note the compound of fire and wood.

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Definitions of firewood

  1. 1nounfirewoodLogs cut and stored for burning.B1+

    “We gathered firewood from the forest before it got dark.”

firewood is fuel.

Where it comes from

Fire plus wood, a compound recorded in Middle English and unchanged in meaning since.

  1. Middle English

    ferwode

  2. English, today

    firewood

From Middle English ferwode, fyrewoode, equivalent to fire + wood.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Camping & Outdoors

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firewood in the wild

  • Transporting firewood long distances can also spread plant pests, diseases, and invasive species.

    Firewood

  • The cord is a unit of measure of dry volume used to measure firewood and pulpwood in the United States and Canada.

    Cord (unit)

  • Banksia menziesii, commonly known as firewood banksia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae.

    Banksia menziesii

  • The firewood catfish (Sorubimichthys planiceps) is a species of South American pimelodid catfish, the sole member of the genus Sorubimichthys.

    Firewood catfish

  • A firewood processor is a machine designed to cut and split firewood with minimal manual handling of the logs.

    Firewood processor

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.