Few persons realize how much water green wood contains, or how much it will lose in a comparatively short time.
Green wood is seasoned by washing out the sap, and then drying it thoroughly.
Thus a rod of green wood may be passed through the ashes of a smouldering fire and, when hot, bent and shaped with the hand; but if the wood be dry it must first be thoroughly soaked in a pond or puddle.
If a section of a single annual ring of green wood of the shape A B C D, in Fig.
There is so much water in green wood that a sappy pole will soon sink when set afloat.
But if you be a carl's daughter, As I believe you be, How did you learn the good Latin, In green wood ye spoke to me?
But if you are a carls daughter, As I take you to be, How did you get the gay clothing, In green wood ye had on thee?
Daddy kept the temperature even, by thrusting into the flues underneath it, long sticks of green wood, kindled well at the flue-mouths.
Welcome be thou to green wood, Hende Knight and free!
Thou art one of the best swordsmen That ever yet saw I me, Couldst thou shoot as well in a bow, To green wood, thou shouldst with me!
Now has the Sheriff ysworn this oath, And home he began to gone; He was as full of green wood, As ever was heap of stone.
Then bespake him ROBIN HOOD, To that Knight so free, "What need driveth thee to green wood?
All night lay that proud sher-iff In his breche and in his sherte, No wonder it was, in green wood, Though his sides do smerte.
The hopeless here new hope may find, Adown, adown, hey derry down, All in the kind, green wood.
Who cometh here leaves grief behind, Here broken man hath welcome kind, All in the wood, the fair, green wood.
I have lingered so long about the grounds of Green Wood Cemetery, that I can tell you nothing in my present letter about our excursion to Rhode Island.
In my last I was principally occupied in giving you some account of the picturesque grounds of Green Wood Cemetery.
Near this they built a fire while Mr. Rice fashioned a little box of birch bark, filled it with water and placed it over the hot embers by resting the ends of the box on fire-dogs of green wood.
They are not made of iron; they are either logs of green wood or stones and known to woodsmen by the name of "fire-dogs.
THE BANK-PIT In the diagram it will be seen that the carcass is fastened to a spit of green wood, which runs thru a hole in a cross log and fits in the socket D in the bottom log; the spit is turned by handles arranged like A, B or C.
This may be thrust into the ground at the right distance from the blaze and turned occasionally, or suspended over the fire from a cross-bar of green wood by a hooked stick, or "planked" against a flat rock inclined toward a hot fire.
The simplest method of cooking thin pieces of meat is by broiling over a bed of live coals, upon a long-handled pronged stick or fork of green wood.
About the hole in a square we drove four forked sticks of green wood, and from these suspended a square piece of tripe or rawhide, cutting a small hole in each corner to admit the prong of the support.
When the liquor which hath yielded Vitriol is become thick, and no more vitriolic crystals shoot in it, they add an eighth part of its weight of putrefied urine, mixed with a lye made of the ashes of green wood.
You need only pour into it a little Oil of Tartar per deliquium; or, if you have not that at hand, a lye of the ashes of green wood.
It is for this reason that the ashes of float-wood are much less saline than those of green wood.
It is usually much more permeable to air, even in green wood, notably so in loblolly pine and even in white oak.
It follows that the density of oven-dry wood does not represent the weight of the dry wood substance in a cubic foot of green wood.
Since the amount of water in wood is extremely variable it usually is not satisfactory to refer to the density of green wood.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "green wood" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
