He tied one end of the rope to the capstan, and the other end was tied to a large boat, a type of whaling boat, that had been filled with firewood and candlewood, all soaked with oil so it would burn well.
"The White Knight: Tirant lo Blanc"
Joanot Martorell and Marti Johan d'Galba
Wood says: "Out of these Pines is gotten the candlewood that is so much spoke of which may serve as a shift among poore folks but I cannot commend it for Singular good because it is something sluttish dropping a pitchy kind of substance where it stands."
"Customs and Fashions in Old New England"
Alice Morse Earle
The ocotilla or candlewood with long, lash-like stalks springing from a common centre-that cactus, which, when dried, needs only a lighted match to set it afire-flourishes in the rocky ledges.
"Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico"
E. L. Kolb