cordwood means wood suitable for use as firewood; firewood cut and split into conveniently sized pieces for easy stacking into cords. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 86 out of 100.
Etymology
From cord + wood.
noun
- Wood suitable for use as firewood; firewood cut and split into conveniently sized pieces for easy stacking into cords.“The June rise used to be always luck for me; because as soon as that rise begins here comes cordwood floating down, and pieces of log rafts -- sometimes a dozen logs together; so all you have to do is to catch them and sell them to the wood-yards and the sawmill.”
- Split and cut wood as an economic commodity.“In addition to being fuel, cordwood can also be used as a fairly pretty building material.”