[
US
/ˈfaɪɝˌwʊd, ˈfaɪɹˌwʊd/
]
[ UK /fˈaɪəwʊd/ ]
[ UK /fˈaɪəwʊd/ ]
NOUN
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wood used for fuel
they collected and cut their own firewood
How To Use firewood In A Sentence
- Will his wife appreciate his artistry or will she have him cut it up for firewood to keep her warm?
- We are working to ensure women can safely cook, and don't put themselves in harm's way gathering firewood by providing safe, efficient stoves and teaching women to create fuel briquettes made out of organic waste. Josette Sheeran: We Can End Hunger: 10 Ways to Feed the World
- The firewood, soaked in oil, blazed up immediately, and his boat became a beacon of flame, drifting downstream towards Lake Tallian.
- ‘With a sled, I can also carry firewood or all the fixings for a picnic,’ Cheryl says.
- Human impact, mainly from grazing, fires, and firewood collection, has transformed the majority of the existing holm oak forest into secondary, dense shrubland, known as "maquis", or into agroforestry landscapes constituted by scattered trees on grasslands or crops. Iberian sclerophyllous and semi-deciduous forests
- He told it, stringing it out while the three spread their blankets and collected a pile of firewood for the night. A Plague of Angels
- Among the products currently manufactured are indoor and garden furnishings, charcoal and firewood.
- Women trek along, carrying huge loads of eucalyptus branches on their backs for firewood.
- With the discovery of gold, mining became a major consumer of firewood and rough timber.
- We can saw off any dead branches and chop them for firewood.