Matchwood

Quick meaning: Matchwood is a noun meaning Wood, often in the form of splinters, suitable for making matches.

Meaning

Wood, often in the form of splinters, suitable for making matches.

Example Sentences

The prison at Omsk, which had known Dostoyevsky, was not like any old Gulag transit prison, hastily knocked together from matchwood.

The walls were as thin as matchwood, and to hide the cracks they had been covered with layer after layer of pink paper, which had come loose and housed innumerable bugs.

The great stick was torn from his grasp and broken in two as though it had been matchwood, to be flung aside as the now infuriated beast charged for his adversary’s throat.

The brute had made a loop of itself round the Dawn Treader and was beginning to draw the loop tight. When it got quite tight—snap!—there would be floating matchwood where the ship had been and it could pick them out of the water one by one.

Word Forms

• matchwoods

Synonyms for matchwood

Depending on context, synonyms include splinters.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include splinters, flibbets, kindlewood, tinder, chatwood, firewood.

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