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n. Chiefly Southern U.S. See kindling. See Regional Note at kindling.

n. Any of various trees with pale-coloured wood, especially the Australian tree Acacia melanoxylon.

n. Wood used to light a fire; also a tree from which one obtains such wood.

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.

n. Any wood used in lighting a fire; kindlings; especially, in the southern United States, very resinous pine wood.

n. The ruddy duck, Erismatura rubida: so called from its toughness.

n. An inappropriate colonial name for the Australian tree Acacia Melanoxylon, more properly called blackwood.

n. Same as coachwood.

n. tall Australian acacia yielding highly valued black timber

"A large platform, used for sunning wheat and seed cotton, was arranged by the negroes for their dance, and several wagon-loads of resinous pine -- known as lightwood -- were placed around about it in little heaps, so that the occasion might lack no element of brilliancy."

Blackwood    blackwood tree   

lightwood knot   

pitch pine    nonslip    unflickering    pine-knot    reverse-wood    oxyacetylene    circulator    four-alarm    level-six    truelove