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Definition of Pine knot
1. Noun. A joint of pine wood used for fuel.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pine Knot
Literary usage of Pine knot
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"pine knot—contd. 1830 At night parties collect by a pine-knot fire, and play
cards for the earnings of the day.—Mass. Spy, May 26. 1833 The pine-knots which ..."
2. Minnesota Plant Diseases by Edward Monroe Freeman (1905)
"Scotch pines in nurseries and experimental forests are sometimes very seriously
affected. F1G. 136.—pine knot (a species of ..."
3. Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children by Theodore Roosevelt (1919)
"Just a line to tell you what a nice time we had at pine knot. Mother was as happy
as she always is there, and as cunning and pretty as possible. ..."
4. Army Life of an Illinois Soldier: Including a Day by Day Record of Sherman's by Charles Wright Wills (1906)
"Those pine knot fires we had on the mountains, made us all look like blacksmiths.
Day before yesterday a foot of snow fell. Last night only drifts on the ..."
5. Under the Maples by John Burroughs (1921)
"pine knot is about one hundred miles from Washington. I think we left the train
at Char- 1 Mr. Burroughs's memory played him false here. ..."
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