Cordwood

Quick meaning: Cordwood is a noun meaning Wood suitable for use as firewood; firewood cut and split into conveniently sized pieces for easy stacking into cords.

Meaning

Wood suitable for use as firewood; firewood cut and split into conveniently sized pieces for easy stacking into cords.

More Meanings

1. Split and cut wood as an economic commodity.

Example Sentences

In addition to being fuel, cordwood can also be used as a fairly pretty building material.

The barkeeper drew beer from two pumps immediately in front of him, and rinsed glasses in some sort of a sink under the edge of the bar. The centre of the room was occupied by a tremendous stove capable of burning whole logs of cordwood.

The June rise used to be always luck for me; because as soon as that rise begins here comes cordwood floating down, and pieces of log rafts -- sometimes a dozen logs together; so all you have to do is to catch them and sell them to the wood-yards and the sawmill.

In his earlier days he had been successful both as a small farmer and as a dealer in cordwood and hoop-poles; and many of his ventures in this line had sailed out of the tortuous rivers of South Jersey to Philadelphia, where the wood and the poles then found ready sale.

Word Forms

• cordwoods

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include firewood, wood, woodpile, chatwood, fuelwood, stovewood.

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