DCHP-3

fat pine†

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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pine wood having a high content of resin, used for light, torches, or kindling.

Quotations

1838
This is filled with a very combustible substance called fat-pine, which burns with a fierce and rapid flame, or else with rolls of birch-bark, which is also very easily ignited.
1866
A blazing light of birch bark and "fat pine" is kindled in an iron cresset fixed in the bows of a canoe. . . .
1905
The Jack-light was made of fat pine knots (knots full of pitch), or hickory bark placed in a basket made of hoop iron hung up to a pole at one end of the boat.