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matchwood
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun matchwood has 3 senses
- matchwood(n = noun.substance) splinters - wood in small pieces or splinters; "the vessel was beaten to matchwood on the rocks" is a kind of wood
- matchwood(n = noun.substance) Array - wood suitable for making matchsticks; Array is a kind of wood
- matchwood(n = noun.object) Array - fragments of wood; "it was smashed into matchwood" is a kind of bit, chip, flake, fleck, scrap
CIDE DICTIONARY
matchwood, n.
- wood in small pieces or splinters; as, the vessel was beaten to matchwood on the rocks. [WordNet 1.5]
- Wood suitable for making matchsticks. [WordNet 1.5]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
matchwood, n.
1 wood suitable for matches.
2 minute splinters.
1 wood suitable for matches.
2 minute splinters.
Idiom
make matchwood of smash utterly.
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