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matchwood

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match·wood  (mchwd)
n.
1. Wood in small pieces or splinters suitable especially for making matches.
2. Splinters: The vessel was beaten to matchwood on the rocks.
matchwood
Noun
1. wood suitable for making matches
2. splinters
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Noun1.matchwood - wood in small pieces or splinters; "the vessel was beaten to matchwood on the rocks"
splinters
wood - the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees
2.matchwood - wood suitable for making matchsticks
wood - the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees
3.matchwood - fragments of wood; "it was smashed into matchwood"
chip, fleck, scrap, bit, flake - a small fragment of something broken off from the whole; "a bit of rock caught him in the eye"
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The chair went to matchwood at the bottom, and we rolled apart into the gutter.
The Lost World by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
The great stick was torn from his grasp and broken in two as though it had been matchwood, to be flung aside as the now infuriated beast charged for his adversary's throat.
The Return of Tarzan by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
When I remember how I've cut down a mile and a half of green poisonous jungle with an old cutlass half as sharp as this; and then remember I must stop here and chop this matchwood, because of some confounded old bargain scribbled in a family Bible, why, I--"
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