Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The wood of the fir-tree.

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Examples

  • ‘First turn to the right up by the long fir-wood,’ he enjoined.

    The Thirty-Nine Steps 2005

  • Madam Benita Odam — for the name of the man who turned the wheel proved to be John Odam — showed me into a little room containing two chairs and a fir-wood table, and sat down on a three-legged seat and studied me very steadfastly.

    Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

  • They came to the fence, beyond which the young fir-wood bristled dense.

    Lady Chatterley's Lover 2004

  • The houses, built of fir-wood, blazed like torches — a hundred and fifty flaming at once.

    Michael Strogoff 2003

  • While Gimli and the two younger hobbits kindled a fire of brush - and fir-wood, and drew water, Aragorn tended Sam and Frodo.

    The Fellowship of the Ring Tolkien, J. R. R. 1965

  • Just over the top of the hill they came on the patch of fir-wood.

    The Fellowship of the Ring Tolkien, J. R. R. 1965

  • There is a dry fir-wood just ahead, if I remember rightly. '

    The Fellowship of the Ring Tolkien, J. R. R. 1965

  • Just over the top of the hill they came on the patch of fir-wood.

    The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954

  • While Gimli and the two younger hobbits kindled a fire of brush - and fir-wood, and drew water, Aragorn tended Sam and Frodo.

    The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954

  • Below us the hillside dipped three or four hundred feet in a sharp slant bushed over with young _darach_ wood; behind us hung a tremendous rock that few standing upon would think had a hollow heart Here was our refuge, and the dry and stoury alleys of the fir-wood we had traversed gave no clue of our track to them that might hunt us.

    John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro

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