1. wood suitable for fuel.
Origin
1350-1400; Middle English ferwode. See
fire,
wood1 Examples from the web for firewood
- Also, local farmers and ranchers clear cloud forest to expand their operations and harvest firewood.
- But in the developing world, where firewood is scarce, peasants burn those cornstalks for cooking fuel.
- One of them, on going to secure it for firewood, found it was an old trunk heavily corded.
- There were no camels now, only a few sad donkeys hauling firewood.
- We borrowed an ax from one family, traded hiking tips with another, and shared maps and firewood.
- If you're comfortable chopping your own firewood or kindling, your small camp ax or hatchet is perfect for splitting a pumpkin.
- You're likely to see the same color if you split much alder firewood, which is cream or reddish inside.
- firewood is worth sixty dollars a cord, and twice that in winter.
- Occasionally it would pounce on a piece of bark that had fallen off the firewood, or a shadow.
- Plastic has the added benefit that it isn't good for burning, it stinks, so barbarians won't be using it for firewood much.
Word Origin and History for firewood