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Matchwood

noun
1.
Wood in small pieces or splinters.  Synonym: splinters.
2.
Wood suitable for making matchsticks.
3.
Fragments of wood.





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"Matchwood" Quotes from Famous Books



... prey. More quickly than he could apprehend the gradation, it increased to a hoarse and horrible roar, as the missile that made it sprang at him out of the sky, striking with a deafening impact one of the posts supporting the confusion of timbers above him, smashing it into matchwood, and bringing down the crazy edifice with a loud clatter, ...
— The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Vol. II: In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians • Ambrose Bierce
... o' them's as rotten as matchwood!" he said; and he took a breath of relief, for he knew that gratitude was dead within ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy
... silence, crunching the wooden laths of the garden fence like matchwood in his fingers, and then said, with sudden resolution, "I know what ...
— The Manxman - A Novel - 1895 • Hall Caine
... servant was in the hall. I had put Stumm to sleep for a bit, but I couldn't flatter myself he would long be quiet, and when he came to he would kick the locked door to matchwood. I must get out of the house without a minute's delay, and if the door was shut and the old man gone ...
— Greenmantle • John Buchan
... the garden, making a hole six feet deep; the next crashed through a house on the opposite side of the road and set it on fire. The danger was two-fold, for we knew our hospital, which was a cardboard sort of thing, would ignite like matchwood, and if it fell we should not be able to get out of the cellars. Some people on our staff were much against our making use of a cellar at all for this reason. I myself felt it was the safest place, and as long as we stayed ...
— My War Experiences in Two Continents • Sarah Macnaughtan
... her. During my short absence from W. Beach for this purpose three had landed there, presumably fired at two of our aeroplanes which had alighted behind us. Only one of the shells did any damage and it smashed a limbered wagon to matchwood. All came from Asia. ...
— The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde" • George Davidson


Words linked to "Matchwood" :   fleck, bit, wood, scrap, flake, chip


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