touchwood
IPA: tˈʌtʃwʊd
noun
- Decayed wood used as tinder; punk.
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Examples of "touchwood" in Sentences
- "touchwood," or "spunk," -- when cut into thin slices and beaten with
- Dick carefully polished the glass and held it at the right angle between the touchwood, that is, the scrapings, and the sun.
- January 16th, 2007 at 9: 41 pm subhan allahhh @@All the babies are soooooo chweet and chubby cheeks, touchwood pavankumar Says:
- We found in the Indian huts at Uruana the vegetable substance called touchwood of ants, * with which we had become acquainted at the Great
- Accidentally looking back, he found that his footmarks, as far as he could see, shone with a phosphoric light like that of "touchwood" in the dark.
- He had a watch upon him, some touchwood, some tinder, some slow matches; and there was a dark lantern with a candle in it, lighted, behind the door.
- The rains had imparted a phosphorescence to the pieces of touchwood and rotting leaves that lay about her path, which, as scattered by her feet, spread abroad like spilt milk.
- _Thelaphora cærulea_, which is the cause of the phosphorescent light sometimes to be seen on decaying wood -- the "touchwood" which many boys have kept in the hope of seeing this light displayed.
- We found in the Indian huts at Uruana the vegetable substance called touchwood of ants, * (* Yesca de hormigas.) with which we had become acquainted at the Great Cataracts, and which is employed to stop bleeding.
- Two of the many passengers by a certain late Sunday evening train, Mr. Thomas Idle and Mr. Francis Goodchild, yielded up their tickets at a little rotten platform (converted into artificial touchwood by smoke and ashes), deep in the manufacturing bosom of Yorkshire.
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