Pine-wood.
1705. Upon this they lay their burning Light-Wood, split into small Shivers, each Splinter whereof will blaze and burn End for End, like a Candle.—R. Beverley, ‘Virginia,’ ii. 34.
1705. [The Indians] generally burn pine or lightwood (that is, the fat knots of dead pipe).—Id., iii. 136. (N.E.D.)
1775. The chapel was destroyed before i came there in 1771, but the cross (being of lightwood) stood yet. (Note) The heart of yellow pine.—B. Romans, ‘Florida,’ p. 79.
1838. I can fancy I see him now, in winter, throwing the oak logs or lightwood knots on the wide hearth.—Caroline Gilman, ‘Recollections of a Southern Matron,’ p. 11.
1838. [Charleston, S.C., was] set on fire by flakes falling on a pile of light wood.—The Jeffersonian, May 12, p. 104.
1853. The negro drew from his pocket a few chips of light wood, or heart of the pitch pine.—S. A. Hammett (‘Philip Paxton’), ‘A Stray Yankee in Texas,’ p. 40.
1856. Boys, throw on some fresh lightwood. Let’s have a good blaze to see by, and bring up the prisoner.—W. G. Simms, ‘Eutaw,’ p. 16 (N.Y.).
1856. Stay a bit, my child, till I fling a few more knots of lightwood upon the fire; we shall be in the dark presently, and I always likes to see the face of a person when I’m a speaking to ’em.—Id., p. 74.
