Synonyms of cordwood

cordwood

noun

as in firewood

Related Words

• firewood
• lumber
• wood
• beam
• timber
• pile
• block
• billet
• splint
• stake
• post
• sill
• bar
• brace
• stick
• ridgepole
• stave

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of cordwood

For a school like Georgia, which has consistently stacked elite talent like cordwood in the Kirby Smart era, those are compounded. — Jeff Sentell, AJC.com, 17 June 2026

In the short video, a giant mass of salmon — an uncountable number of fish — are stacked up like cordwood in the narrow stream. — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 15 May 2025

Some of the early subscriptions to the Litchfield Independent were paid for with cordwood, farm produce or muskrat skins. — Terry Shaw, Twin Cities, 24 Apr. 2024

And the things he was made to do, lest he be shot or thrown, still living, but just barely, into the piles of corpses stacked like cordwood in streets, fields, along the fence lines of the ghettos and death camps in which he was confined. — Robert Wilonsky, Dallas News, 14 Jan. 2020

After loggers felled the large trees, smaller ones became fuel for locomotives, and the eastern slopes of the Sierra are so dry that there are still stacks of cordwood left over from the eighteen-eighties. — Nicola Twilley, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2019