cord-woodn.
Wood stacked in ‘cords’; wood for fuel cut in lengths (usually) of 4 feet. Also attributive. Now chiefly in America.
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1638–9 in Quarter Sessions Rec. (N. Riding Rec. Soc.) (1886) IV. A man presented for stealing Cord wood.
1763 Brit. Mag. 4 543 (North America) A strong breast-work of cordwood.
1878 H. B. Stowe Poganuc People ix. 73 Zeph's sled was..loaded up with cord-wood.
1887 W. D. Parish & W. F. Shaw Dict. Kentish Dial. Cord-wood, a pile of wood, such as split-up roots and trunks of trees stacked for fuel.
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