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This mill is constructed of two large flat wooden cylinders, formed like mill-stones, with channels or furrows cut therein, diverging in an oblique direction from the centre to the circumference, made of a heavy and exceedingly hard timber, called lightwood, which is the knots of the pitch pine.

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A large platform, used for sunning wheat and seed cotton, was arranged by the negroes for their dance, and several wagon-loads of resinous pine -- known as lightwood -- were placed around about it in little heaps, so that the occasion might lack no element of brilliancy.

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The floor was of the bare earth, covered in patches with loose plank of various descriptions, and littered over with billets of "lightwood," unwashed cooking utensils, two or three cheap stools, a pine settee -- made from the rough log and hewn smooth on the upper side -- a full-grown bloodhound, two younger canines, and nine half-clad juveniles of the flax-head species.

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The rustic maiden, slow and sweet in ungrammatical speech, who helps plant corn by day, and makes picturesque the interior of the cabin in the glare of "lightwood" torches by night; turns men's heads and wins children's hearts in Charles Egbert Craddock's tale, _The

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States pine-fat with resin is called lightwood, and is used for the same purpose. "

Among the Trees at Elmridge

Tar was made from lightwood, which was the heart of the dead pine.

John

He set the stub in the three-pronged holder, then lit it with a stick of lightwood from the hearth.

Lord of the Isles

Fire rolled out of the fire place and lighted a pile of rich lightwood and when Mr. Davis and family awaked they had barely time to escape from the house.

Diary of Samuel A. Agnew : September 27, 1863-June 30, 1864,

For instance, at the first sniffle they were called in and given a drink of fat lightwood tea, made by pouring boiling water over finely split kindling -- "that" explained Aunt Adeline, "was cause lightwood got turpentine in it".

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"'Cause lightwood got turpentine in it," explained Adeline.

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