States pine-fat with resin is called lightwood, and is used for the same purpose. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Among the Trees at Elmridge] Reference

A lightwood torch furnishes the light by day and by night.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Missionary — Volume 44, No. 06, June, 1890] Reference

"'Cause lightwood got turpentine in it," explained Adeline.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 4] Reference

(That is made by pouring boiling water over lightwood splinters.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 1] Reference

All de light come from de lightwood knots burnin 'in de fireplace.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1] Reference

Light was furnished by lightwood torches and sometimes by the homemade tallow candles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 3] Reference

Dat lightwood tea is er good medicine, I takes hit lots ov times now when I has er cole.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 2] Reference

Oh, we had big chunk of lightwood en cook meat en hoecake en collards right dere in de woods.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 1] Reference

He set the stub in the three-pronged holder, then lit it with a stick of lightwood from the hearth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord of the Isles] Reference

The varieties are as follows: Gold wattle, silver wattle (blackwood, lightwood), black wattle, green wattle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 803, May 23, 1891] Reference

The yard was brightly lighted in spots by flaming lightwood torches, which left the other parts in deepest gloom.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rose of Old St. Louis] Reference

We had torches made o 'lightwood splinters, and brushes in our han's, we hit de piles o' brush after we got 'round' em.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1] Reference

Leaning against a post that held a lightwood torch, a little withdrawn from the others, in solitary dignity, stood Black Hawk.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rose of Old St. Louis] Reference

We had thrown lightwood down into them, and filled them up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Down South or, Yacht Adventure in Florida] Reference

Jake for lightwood, she took the blanket and I the matches.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Woman Rice Planter] Reference

"Thar ain't anything like a lightwood fire to drive away the misery.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Miller Of Old Church] Reference

Git de water, boy; 'tir (stir) you' stumps, and help Peter git de lightwood.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sword and the Distaff: Or, "Fair, Fat, and Forty." A Story of the South, at the Close of the Revolution by the Author of "The Partisan," "Mellichampe," "Katharine Walton," Etc. Etc.] Reference

The bird descended as far as the lightwood, but would not be coaxed to come any nearer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned] Reference

The old man folded his hands in his lap, and sat quietly gazing into the lightwood fire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nights With Uncle Remus Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation] Reference

I was passing between two piles of lightwood on my way, when I heard the report of a pistol.    From Wordnik.com.  [Down South or, Yacht Adventure in Florida] Reference

Sent a note to Billy P. - and his brother, who had been selling the lightwood for themselves.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Woman Rice Planter] Reference

"If he had not been as hard as a lightwood knot, that fall would have mashed him up," said the Doctor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gordon Keith] Reference

Charmian ran back to put another stick of lightwood on the fire, and turn the gas down to a blue flame.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Coast of Bohemia] Reference

Game was plenty; lightwood was a substitute for candles; and housewifely skill furnished homespun garments.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime] Reference

Sam and Puss were both blinking their eyes in the shade of the lightwood, and whisking the flies from their ears.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned] Reference

October came, when all the scrub, the lightwood, and wattle were in full bloom, and the air everywhere was full of sweetness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned] Reference

There don't any train run on it except when the crew goes out in the pines and gathers enough lightwood knots to get up steam.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gentle Grafter] Reference

Philip would go under the lightwood with a lighted candle, and look for her amongst the leaves, saying, "Maggie, are you there?".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned] Reference

From a saddle he took the lightwood torch, returned within, and placed the cup on the boulder on which the Grand Cyclops had sat.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Clansman An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan] Reference

Charmian bustled about, and made a fire of lightwood, and then kindled her spirit lamp, and made tea, which she brought to Cornelia.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Coast of Bohemia] Reference

He hesitated and I went on: "I want to take some lightwood and a blanket over to Elihu, who is watching, for the night is very cold.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Woman Rice Planter] Reference

The fat tenant of the hovel had left some lightwood and kindling, and pots and pans necessary for such an existence as he led on earth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Special Messenger] Reference