pine knot


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Noun1.pine knot - a joint of pine wood used for fuel
firewood - wood used for fuel; "they collected and cut their own firewood"
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And he was as tough as a pine knot, and with the appetite of a wolf.
Then she led the way into the dense shadows of the castle, lighting their advance with a flickering pine knot. The old planking of the floors, long unused, groaned and rattled beneath their approach.
It will shine through the house so that we may pick up a pin in any corner and will set all the windows aglowing as if there were a great fire of pine knots in the chimney.
It will shine through the house so that we may pick up a pin in any corner, and will set all the windows aglowing as if there were a great fire of pine knots in the chimney.
The Pine Knot News staff includes an editor (Peterson), advertising director, office manager and production director.
Two notices was published for mixed-beverage licenses, three notices were published for retail store licenses, 58 notices were published for retail beer licenses, three notices were published for retail beer and wine licenses, and one notice was published for a change of address.<br />Seeking mixed-beverage licenses:<br />The Pine Knot, 420371 State Highway 3 in Antlers, Kimberly D.
At American Consolidated Media's Northern Minnesota operations (Grand Rapids Herald-Review, Cloquet Pine Knot, Walker Pilot Independent, Manney's Shopper, et al.) Todd Keute has been named regional operations manager; previously, he was publisher of ACM's Daily Press in Ashland, Wisc., and Wisconsin regional manager, a job he'd held for a little more than a year.
The dish that won Earth Fare this award was Carolina Chicken Roulade with Sweet Potato Salad & Sesame Kale, made with local ingredient, from Pine Knot Farms, Hurdle Mills, N.C.; Alison's Family Farms, Troy, N.C.; The Goat Lady, Climax, N.C.; Latta Farms, Hillsborough, N.C.; Black River Organic Farm, Ivanhoe, N.C.; Timberwood Organics, Efland, N.C.; and Sunburst Tomatoes, Nashville.
We have a bench in our house that's made from the center of a barn in Pine Knot, Ky., where Union soldiers slept during the Civil War.
JIMMIE Wilson is from the small town of Pine Knot, Ky., on the Tennessee border.
From my perspective, Charlie is a pine knot with no visible chinks.