lightwood

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Well, dat happen in a skirt of woods what I get my lightwood what I use to start a fire.

From Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume I, Alabama Narratives by United States. Work Projects Administration

The method of it is to suspend a fire of lightwood knots, which is built within a hollow, gratelike iron frame over the water.

From When the Cock Crows by Baily, Waldron

Dat won't no trouble, cause all I had to do was rake back de ashes from the coals and throw on some chips and lightwood and de fire come right up.

From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 2 by Work Projects Administration

Sam and Puss were both blinking their eyes in the shade of the lightwood, and whisking the flies from their ears.

From The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned by Macfarlane, J.

"Wait till I strike a match, and I'll try to find a piece of lightwood to make a torch," said Rob, jumping from the wagon.

From The Boy Scouts Under Fire in Mexico by Payton, Lieut. Howard