He also became a "woodhawk," supplying cord wood to steamboats.

"How horrifyingly they tie us, and put us about, as though we might be cord wood."

The ferry departed from Houghton on May 30, 1918, having first been boarded up and loaded with cord wood for use as fuel.

I accordingly built a mound out of cord wood filled in the center with all the horse bones I could find on the field.

It was a death camp, with the bodies stacked like cord wood.

He said agents were told that he had cocaine "stacked like cord wood."

The dying were starting to pile up like hideous cord wood in the cut forming a blood-soaked barricade.

She piled wrung clothes like cord wood on the table.

The steamboats used cord wood to fuel the vessels.

Several photographs exist of the locomotive in the Kernville yard, its tender loaded with coal instead the usual cord wood.