Pine-wood abounding in pitch. Dryden has fat amber, 1697. N.E.D.
1808. A pine post, fat with pitch, had taken fire.—Mass. Spy, Nov. 9.
1846. Jim Clark has gone to the woods for fat pine, and Peggy Willet is along to take a lite for him,—they’ve been gone a coon’s age.—W. T. Porter, ed., ‘A Quarter Race in Kentucky,’ etc., p. 85.
1856. A rich cheering blaze, such as, in those day when gas was not—good fat lightwood only could afford.—W. G. Simms, ‘Eutaw,’ p. 74 (N.Y.).
1856. He carries some fine splinters of the fattest lightwood, which takes fire at a touch.—Id., p. 261.
1857. On entering, the guide will light a torch of fat pine, and with the close musty atmosphere of the room around you, watching the water as it trickles down the reeking walls, will tell you how some years ago a portion of the interior masonry gave way, disclosing this, previously walled up, apartment, and how its only tenant was a human skeleton, still clothed in tattered fragments of garments, and an empty cup.—Yale Lit. Mag., xxii. 263 (June).
