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Meanings of rotten wood in English

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Usage of rotten wood in English
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Soon the swish of leaves and the crackling of rotten wood ceased.
The Captain of the Kansas
2
Laura touched the banister, and her hand sank into the rotten wood.
Mine
3
For he shall esteem iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 1
4
Hemlock has no such fastidiousness, even preferring rotten wood as a seedbed.
Practical Forestry in the Pacific Northwest / Protecting Existin...
5
Don't build fires in leaves, rotten wood or sawdust, or pine needles.
Pluck on the Long Trail; Or, Boy Scouts in the Rockies
6
He was sitting on his knees under a roof of rotten wood.
The Wolf’s Hour
7
The hinges broke from the rotten wood at once, and he stumbled in.
The Burglar and the Blizzard: A Christmas Story
8
They are found in crevices, under stones, in caves, and in rotten wood.
Santo Domingo: A Country with a Future
9
So the question before us is: Is the boy rotten wood?
The Diamond Age
10
Sarge, I think he incinerated Robyn and the others with that rotten wood.
In the hat: a novel of suspense
11
The rotten wood-bark and leaves flew fearfully around for a moment.
The Forest King / Wild Hunter of the Adaca
12
The rotten wood made a great dust as down I slide.
Winter Adventures of Three Boys in the Great Lone Land
13
For fully twenty minutes she rapped away at the rotten wood.
Stories of Birds
14
Living millions sprang somehow from the dead millions, like fungus from rotten wood.
The Rains Came
15
The three boys went into the forest and fetched armfuls of rotten wood.
Lord of the Flies
16
Little things, twisted roots, trailing vines, dead and rotten wood, made me stumble.
To Have and to Hold
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Rotten wood through the time
Rotten wood across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common