英语词汇cord of wood的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	cord of wood
词源	cord of wood. Stacks of firewood were once measured with cords of rope, this practice giving us the term cord of wood for “a pile of split logs stacked eight feet long and four feet high and wide.” The expression was used, indicating the same dimen- sions, as early as 1616.
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