English Dictionary

cordwood

noun

Wood suitable for use as firewood; firewood cut and split into conveniently sized pieces for easy stacking into cords. / Split and cut firewood as an economic commodity.

I stacked the cordwood neatly by the fireplace.

意味（1）

Wood suitable for use as firewood; firewood cut and split into conveniently sized pieces for easy stacking into cords.

The June rise used to be always luck for me; because as soon as that rise begins here comes cordwood floating down, and pieces of log rafts -- sometimes a dozen logs together; so all you have to do is to catch them and sell them to the wood-yards and the sawmill.

意味（2）

Split and cut firewood as an economic commodity.

The price of the paper was two dollars a year, but he took in three subscriptions for half a dollar apiece on condition of them paying him in advance; they were going to pay in cordwood and onions as usual, but he said he had just bought the concern and knocked down the price as low as he could afford it, and was going to run it for cash.