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OAK |
Hard wood |
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TEAN |
Hard wood |
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EBONY |
Hard wood |
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MAHOGANY |
Hard wood |
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ELM |
Hard wood |
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TEAK |
Hard wood |
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ASH |
Hard pale wood |
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ELMS |
Sources of hard wood |
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IRONWOOD |
A tree unusually hard, strong, or heavy wood. |
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RABOT |
A rubber of hard wood used in smoothing marble to be
polished. |
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FLINTWOOD |
An Australian name for the very hard wood of the
Eucalyptus piluralis. |
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SIDEROXYLON |
A genus of tropical sapotaceous trees noted for their
very hard wood; ironwood. |
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SABICU |
The very hard wood of a leguminous West Indian tree
(Lysiloma Sabicu), valued for shipbuilding. |
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LEADER |
A block of hard wood pierced with suitable holes for
leading ropes in their proper places. |
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NUR |
A hard knot in wood; also, a hard knob of wood used by boys in
playing hockey. |
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GNARL |
A knot in wood; a large or hard knot, or a protuberance with
twisted grain, on a tree. |
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ALBURNUM |
The white and softer part of wood, between the inner bark
and the hard wood or duramen; sapwood. |
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FID |
A pin of hard wood, tapering to a point, used to open the
strands of a rope in splicing. |
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BOIS DURCI |
A hard, highly polishable composition, made of fine
sawdust from hard wood (as rosewood) mixed with blood, and pressed. |
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BLOODSTICK |
A piece of hard wood loaded at one end with lead, and
used to strike the fleam into the vein. |
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BEE |
Pieces of hard wood bolted to the sides of the bowsprit, to
reeve the fore-topmast stays through; -- called also bee blocks. |
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RATA |
A New Zealand forest tree (Metrosideros robusta), also, its
hard dark red wood, used by the Maoris for paddles and war clubs. |
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DOGWOOD |
The Cornus, a genus of large shrubs or small trees, the
wood of which is exceedingly hard, and serviceable for many purposes. |
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BLOCK |
A piece of hard wood (as mahogany or cherry) on which a
stereotype or electrotype plate is mounted to make it type high. |
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FIRM |
Fixed; hence, closely compressed; compact; substantial;
hard; solid; -- applied to the matter of bodies; as, firm flesh; firm
muscles, firm wood. |