| 单词 | kindling wood |
| 释义 | > as lemmaskindling wood kindling wood n. short pieces of dry split wood suitable for lighting fires; (also figurative) small pieces of wood.In kindling-wood machine: an apparatus for splitting such wood. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > wood as fuel > [noun] > kindling hostry faggot1594 chat1670 fire faggota1722 hostry-wood1738 kindling wood1783 kindler1791 fire kindling1849 crack1851 split1858 1783 G. W. Lemon Eng. Etymol. at Brush-wood Small fagots of underwood; which..easily kindle; kindling-wood. 1850 H. T. Cheever Whale & his Captors vi. 103 The first whale..knocked them [sc. boats] into kindling wood. a1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. II. 1228/2 Kindling-wood Machine, an apparatus for splitting the short wood used for kindling coal fires, etc. 1922 Pop. Mech. Oct. 495 The heavy steel cars virtually made kindling wood of the antiquated coaches. 1965 L. Murray Coll. Poems (1991) 4 I'll go outside and split off kindling wood From the yellow-box log. 2002 Sunday Times 2 June (Nexis) Build a crisscross of short lengths of kindling wood and dry sticks over twisted strips of newspaper or fire lighters. < as lemmas |
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