lightwood

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Oh, we had big chunk of lightwood en cook meat en hoecake en collards right dere in de woods.

From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 1 by Work Projects Administration

Well, dat happen in a skirt of woods what I get my lightwood what I use to start a fire.

From Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume I, Alabama Narratives by United States. Work Projects Administration

So us carry a lightwood knot fer light when us put anything in it or take anything out.

From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 2 by Work Projects Administration

Sam and Puss were both blinking their eyes in the shade of the lightwood, and whisking the flies from their ears.

From The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned by Macfarlane, J.

The yard was brightly lighted in spots by flaming lightwood torches, which left the other parts in deepest gloom.

From The Rose of Old St. Louis by Dillon, Mary