A pine-knot.
1792. A lighted pitch-knot is placed on the outside of a canoe, which not only attracts the fish, but gives the fishermen direction where to strike.—Jeremy Belknap, ‘New Hampshire,’ iii. 90. (N.E.D.)
1825. [In the fire-place], two or three lighted pitch knots, a substitute for candles, were burning.—John Neal, ‘Brother Jonathan,’ i. 58.
