Matchwood

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Wood in small pieces or splinters suitable especially for making matches.
  • n. Splinters: The vessel was beaten to matchwood on the rocks.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. wood, often in the form of splinters, suitable for making matches
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. wood in small pieces or splinters.
  • n. Wood suitable for making matchsticks.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Wood in any form, whether in logs, scantlings, or boards, adapted to and designed for use in the manufacture of matches.
  • n. Wood which has been sawn, or sawn and split, to the proper size for matches.
  • n. As a figure of speech, wood which has been broken or splintered into very fine pieces.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. fragments of wood
  • n. wood suitable for making matchsticks
  • n. wood in small pieces or splinters
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    chip    bit    flake    scrap    fleck   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    splinters   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    red-walled    snow-bank    timber-framed    roughhewn    earthern   
     
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