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Meanings of touchwood in English

Portuguese
esporra

Material for starting a fire.

esporra
Usage of touchwood in English
1
There was no moisture there, and his mouth was as dry as touchwood.
Young Mr. Barter's Repentance / From "Schwartz" by David Christi...
2
The kitchen door-post is now as rotten as touchwood; no bolt will fasten it.
Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1
3
He seized the dry stick again and scraped off another little pile of touchwood.
The Last of the Chiefs: A Story of the Great Sioux War
4
First she gathered wreckwood and straw, and struck flint over touchwood and teened a fire.
Wandering Heath
5
The old man fumbled with a finger, scraping together the flakes of touchwood in a tinder-box.
Lady Good-for-Nothing: A Man's Portrait of a Woman
6
A Hindoo village is as inflammable as touchwood.
Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier / Twelve Years Sporting Re...
7
The woods were one medley of fallen trees, rotting into touchwood, hidden boulders, and matted briers.
Salute to Adventurers
8
The rays passing through the glass increased many times in power and struck directly upon the touchwood.
The Last of the Chiefs: A Story of the Great Sioux War
9
This was also the case with the wooden shafts of the spears, which powdered away like touchwood.
The Missing Merchantman
10
The whole boat was mere touchwood.
Paul Gerrard, the Cabin Boy
11
When we saw the fragment it looked mostly like tinder, or touchwood, 'eld-gamall,' stone-old, as the Icelanders say.
To The Gold Coast for Gold: A Personal Narrative. Vol. I
12
She was suffocating; she might certainly make herself comfortable; everyone was not gifted with a skin as dry as touchwood.
L'Assommoir
13
A wild gooseberry may sometimes be seen growing out of the decayed 'touchwood' on the top of a hollow withy-pollard.
Adventures in Criticism
14
We found in the Indian huts at Uruana the vegetable substance called touchwood of ants,* (* Yesca de hormigas.)
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of Amer...
15
Just at that moment there came a fearful crash, the stout timbers and beams were rent, as if composed of mere touchwood.
Owen Hartley; or, Ups and Downs: A Tale of Land and Sea
16
The little monster has set the marsh-grass on fire, and it was I who taught the devil's spawn how to use touchwood!
The Nameless Castle
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esporra
Touchwood through the time