"cordwood" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: cordwoods [plural]
Etymology: cord + wood Etymology templates: {{compound|en|cord|wood}} cord + wood Head templates: {{en-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. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (lifeform): Woods Translations (wood suitable for use as firewood): polttopuu (Finnish), поле́нья (polénʹja) [neuter, plural] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-cordwood-en-noun-JivY0px0 Disambiguation of Woods: 57 43 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 55 45 Disambiguation of 'wood suitable for use as firewood': 95 5
  2. Split and cut wood as an economic commodity. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (wood as economic commodity): polttopuu (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-cordwood-en-noun-wsFck67l Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 55 45 Disambiguation of 'wood as economic commodity': 10 90

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for cordwood meaning in English (2.8kB)

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