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cordwoods

cordwoods is the plural of cordwood.

Meaning of cordwood

Noun

cordwood (countable and uncountable, plural cordwoods)

  1. Wood suitable for use as firewood; firewood cut and split into conveniently sized pieces for easy stacking into cords.
    • 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.1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “Chapter 7”, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC, page 40
  2. Split and cut wood as an economic commodity.
    • In addition to being fuel, cordwood can also be used as a fairly pretty building material.

Questions about cordwoods

What is cordwoods the plural of?
Cordwoods is the plural of cordwood.

Words near cordwoods in the dictionary

  1. cordwainers
  2. cordwainery
  3. cordwaining
  4. cordwains
  5. cordwood
  6. cordwoods
  7. cordy
  8. cordycepin
  9. cordyceps
  10. cordyceptic
  11. cordycipitaceous

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