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pitchwood

pitchwood noun: resinous conifer wood.

Noun

pitchwood (uncountable)

  1. Resinous conifer wood.
    • The old stumps were yet in a good state of preservation. The resinous exudations had converted them and their old roots into solid masses of pitchwood and left them as monuments of a most interesting past.1909, William Armistead, Reminiscences: Incidents in the Life of a Pioneer in Oregon and Idaho, page 193
    • He arose, thrust a piece of pitch-wood into the ground, and a fire burst out.1918, James George Frazer, Folk-Lore In The Old Testament, volume 1, page 24

Origin of pitchwood

From pitch + wood.

Questions about pitchwood

What does pitchwood mean?
Pitchwood means resinous conifer wood.
What part of speech is pitchwood?
Pitchwood is a noun.

Words near pitchwood in the dictionary

  1. pitchuri
  2. pitchurie
  3. pitchwise
  4. pitchwoman
  5. pitchwomen
  6. pitchwood
  7. pitchy
  8. pitcoal
  9. Pitcock
  10. Pitcocks
  11. Pitcombe

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