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Definition of Lightwood
1. Noun. Tall Australian acacia yielding highly valued black timber.
Group relationships: Genus Acacia
Generic synonyms: Blackwood, Blackwood Tree
Definition of Lightwood
1. n. 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.
Definition of Lightwood
1. Noun. Any of various trees with pale-coloured wood, especially the Australian tree ''Acacia melanoxylon''. ¹
2. Noun. (context: North America) Wood used to light a fire; also a tree from which one obtains such wood. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lightwood
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Medical Definition of Lightwood
1. 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. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lightwood
Literary usage of Lightwood
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Naval Stores: History, Production, Distribution and Consumption by Thomas Gamble (1921)
"Pine knots are sometimes found in connection with other pine trees, but not to
the same extent and richness. The name "lightwood" may be given to bits of ..."
2. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"lightwood—contd. 1838 [Charleston, SC, was] set on fire by flakes falling ...
1856 Boys, throw on some fresh lightwood. Let's have a good blaze to see by, ..."
3. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens (1908)
"Mr. lightwood told me he had never seen you." " I did not then know that I had,"
... I would have avoided mentioning it in your presence," said lightwood to ..."
4. A Treatise on Turpentine Farming: Being a Review of Natural and Artificial by G. W. Perry (1859)
"lightwood is produced by the soaking or penetrating of the spirits through the
pine; it will be found wherever there is a scar on the living wood, or in it, ..."
5. The Chronicles of Baltimore: Being a Complete History of "Baltimore Town by John Thomas Scharf (1874)
"... in vain he tried to urge the fire with lightwood ; the horse gained on tho
machine, and passed it; and although the band was presently replaced and ..."
6. Argosy All-story Weekly edited by Frank Andrew Munsey (1899)
"She was holding in her hand the charred fragment of a lightwood knot, and smiling
as he had seen her that day across the pools, smiling tremulously, ..."
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