Lightwood is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for LIGHTWOOD in dictionary:

NOUN:
• pine wood abounding in pitch, used for torches in the Southern United States
• a tree yielding timber that is pale in colour or light in weight.
• firewood that burns easily and with a bright flame; kindling.
• Australian acacia
• Pine wood abounding in pitch, used for torches in the Southern United States; pine knots, dry sticks, and the like, for kindling a fire quickly or making a blaze.
• tall Australian acacia yielding highly valued black timber
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• wood used for kindling; coniferous wood abounding in pitch

Words related to LIGHTWOOD

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Words that contain LIGHTWOOD

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How to use LIGHTWOOD in a sentence

• The abundance of light-wood is one of the boasts of South Carolina.
• The light-wood fire was made, and the negroes dropped in from the neighboring plantations, singing as they came.
• Uncle Wellington went down to the spring and got a pail of water, after which he brought in some oak logs for the fire place and some lightwood for kindling.
• A lightwood torch furnishes the light by day and by night.
• Near the railway-track a light-wood fire was blazing, and, obeying the promptings of the frosty atmosphere, we made our way to it.
• The bird descended as far as the lightwood, but would not be coaxed to come any nearer.
• October came, when all the scrub, the lightwood, and wattle were in full bloom, and the air everywhere was full of sweetness.
• These candles were for the use of the master and mistress, as the slaves used fat lightwood torches for lighting purposes.
• Lightwood torches were used by those not able to afford candles.
• Slaves used fat lightwood knots or their open fireplaces for lighting purposes.
• Had I a night to spend in this wilderness I should not know where to find a palmetto-fan for a torch, where to seek light-wood for splinter.
• Reeney found light-wood enough on the raft to make a good fire for coffee, which never tasted better.
• Fat pine and light-wood are used to burn in the jack, which give a very brilliant light for several yards round the bow of the canoe.
• Faint, trembling in every limb, I fell into a chair, and through a mist saw him kneel and blow upon the coals of the expiring fire, upon which he dropped a lightwood knot.
• The Butterfly Man knelt, thrust a handful of lightwood splinters under the pile, and touched a match here and there.
• Into the grate put shavings or paper, or the fat pine known as lightwood.

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