(n.) Brush; a thicket or coppice of small trees and shrubs.
(n.) Small branches of trees cut off.
Example Sentences:
(1) Builders laid logs and brushwood on the boggy ground before building it up in layers, finishing with gravel and rammed clay still so solid and sound it looks modern.
(2) In the subalpine zone, where the number and density of these animals in rather high, the infestation rate is greater than that in the brushwood zone.
(3) More in detail, domestic burns were caused as follows: alcohol spraying to stir a fire (26%), gas burst (25%), flammable substances exposed to heat sources (18%), hot water or different liquid (8%), fall over heating devices (6%), fires from cigarettes in bed (5%), kitchen stoves (with or without clothing fire) (5%), brushwood burning (4%), other (3%).
(4) The 25% relapses show the importance of a good limb prosthesis, of sanitary education of the patients and their supervision when they go back to brushwood.
Firewood
Definition:
(n.) Wood for fuel.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the past, he explains, 'encroachers' failed to respect the park's boundaries, sneaking into the forest to gather firewood and fell trees for timber.
(2) In 1977 the Green Belt Movement began with Maathai organizing women to plant trees for firewood.
(3) The animals were hunted and trapped for their meat and fur and the trees provided the firewood that littered the forest floor.
(4) Adolescent girls are then asked to fulfill the adult woman's functions in gathering firewood and fetching water.
(5) A programme that aims to supply firewood in a sustainable manner, which started in 1998, has been undermined by unauthorised exploitation of its plantations by traders from the camps, found the impact study.
(6) When the Roman empire collapsed, he said, large parts of Europe had been deforested for farmland and to provide firewood.
(7) "I try to boil it but if I don't have firewood we drink it as it is," she says.
(8) It is estimated to be worth £72- £124m annually in social and environmental benefits and is famously good for burning, known in poems as a firewood fit for a queen.
(9) Now, if they wish to gather firewood, medicinal plants or building materials they must approach their parish council for a permit and pay a small fee - anywhere from 200 to 500UGS (60p-£1.50).
(10) Sompasauna shacks are free to use and maintained by volunteers; visitors may have to chop their own firewood with the saw from blocks of wood provided.
(11) He also realised that the commercialisation of the baobab could provide rural communities with a financial incentive to protect their woodlands and act as a bulwark against deforestation in a country that is losing its trees at a rate of around 3% a year as people clear land for firewood and farming.
(12) "I'm not used to chopping firewood and my body aches but then doing it this way we only spend €300 on heating our home."
(13) There were "small incidents" with Roma accused of pilfering firewood or vegetables and other petty crime, but only 12 "petty larcenies" were reported to police during the first four months of 2011.
(14) "Seventy years of growth and now good for firewood only," sighs Olrik.
(15) Socioeconomic factors contributing to the injuries included the use of firewood for cooking at ground-level and for warming the house and body during the cold season; loose indigenous garments; thatch-roofed huts and the post-partum rituals of mud-bed heating and hot baths.
(16) A trip through Dalsland’s Lake District in Sweden can be adapted according to paddlers’ lust for adventure, with camping spots and firewood provided, as they navigate their way through scenic waterways surrounded by rich woodland.
(17) "I really want to go to school, I like school," he says, now balancing a basket full of firewood.
(18) Now when we see each other we ask, ‘Were you raped today?’ ” The report says: “Armed assailants, including members of state security forces, operating with complete impunity, sexually assault, rape, beat, shoot, and stab women and girls inside camps for the displaced and as they walk to market, tend to their fields, or forage for firewood.” It suggests five areas in which measures to protect women and children from sexual violence should be taken: physical protection, emergency health services, access to justice, legal and policy reform, and promotion of women’s equality.
(19) It is hard to convince them to listen to us.” Mir Fatteh Khan, a burly man of 40, worries about his 10 children, many of whom have taken to wandering the foothills in search of firewood.
(20) The fund is intended to provide African governments and people living in the rainforest with a viable alternative to logging, mining, and felling trees for firewood and subsistence farming.