Definition of "kindling-wood" []

• Dry wood cut into small pieces to be used in kindling fires. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "In other places it was filled with air and emptiness, with here and there a piece of kindling-wood or dry-goods box, to aid in the making of the shell."
• "I'll never forget the night when I called him an 'told him that everything on top the houses had gone adrift, an' that two of the boats had been swept aft and was kindling-wood against the break of the cabin."
• "Essex, sink off the west coast of South America, twelve hundred miles from the nearest land for the small boats to cover, and all because of a big cow whale that butted her into kindling-wood?"