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Noun: matchwood  'mach,wûd
  1. Wood suitable for making matchsticks
    "The factory processed the matchwood into thousands of matchsticks"
     
  2. Wood in small pieces or splinters
    "the vessel was beaten to matchwood on the rocks"
     
  3. Fragments of wood
    "it was smashed into matchwood"

Derived forms: matchwoods

Type of: bit, chip, flake, fleck, scrap, wood

Encyclopedia: Matchwood, Michigan