Word Finder - hardwood

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(mostly in botany and forestry) The wood from any dicotyledonous tree, without regard to its hardness.

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Balsa is a hardwood, but a soft hardwood.

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(in more general use) As the preceding but limited to those that are commercial timbers, and are at least average in hardness.

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Ash, hickory and oak are some of the most prominent domestic hardwoods.

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The tree or tree species that yields the preceding.

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This hardwood has been planted extensively throughout the hills here.

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A joint term for the commercial timbers, without distinguishing which.

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You should have used hardwood for this window sill instead of this junk.

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The sport of basketball, in particular, an indoor basketball court; so named because the floor of an indoor basketball court is normally made of hardwood.

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Of a floor: made of interlocking hardwood boards.

The hardwood floor had not been stained.

The wooden banisters were polished to a high finish, and the hardwood stairs were covered on the walkway with more carpet.

A huge marble fireplace dominated the large family room, its image reflected on the shiny expanse of hardwood floor.

He turned and left the room, his boots clicking across the tile floor and then fading as he moved across the hardwood family room floor and down the hall.

Still, the rich hardwood floor reflected the weak morning sun in a cheerful manner that spawned reluctance to continue the tour.

Cynthia spotted him as he crossed the living room and started down the hall, his boot heels clicking sharply on the hardwood floor.

Together, they tiptoed across the hardwood floor and stood proudly looking down Zach.

Willoughby's was old hardwood and brass under 70 years of bad breath and nicotine, catering to a tenth the crowd of bygone days.

The plateau portion of West Virginia is largely covered by hardwood forests, but along the Ohio river and its principal tributaries the valuable timber has been removed and considerable areas have been wholly cleared for farming and pasture lands.

Encouraged by the comparison, she threw back the covers and swung her feet to the cold hardwood floor.

The front door swung open behind her and his boots clicked across the hardwood floor, stopping at the kitchen doorway.

His chocolate gaze scanned the room full of women uncomfortably as he walked toward her, his square-toed boots clicking briskly on the hardwood floor.

Bare feet padded across the hardwood floor behind her, announcing that Alex was awake.

It bounced off the wall and hit the floor, parts flying off as it slid across the hardwood floor.

Instead of dirt, the floors were made of hardwood so rich that the layer of dust couldn't hide its beauty.

Even the bathroom had hardwood floors and stained pine walls.

In the area of the Newer Appalachian Mountains, the eastern Panhandle region has a forest similar to that of the plateau district; but between these two areas of hardwood there is a long belt where spruce and white pine cover the mountain ridges.

The state was originally covered with a dense forest mostly of hardwood timber, and although the merchantable portion of this has been practically all cut away, there are still undergrowths of young timber and a great variety of trees.

Lumber and flour are Cairo's principal manufactured products, and the city is an important hardwood and cotton-wood market; the Singer Manufacturing Co.

Charlevoix is an important hardwood lumber port, and the principal industries are the manufacture of lumber and of cement; fishing (especially for lake trout and white fish); the raising of sugar beets; and the manufacture of rustic and fancy wood-work.

A great part of the island is clothed with dense forest, in which many valuable hardwood trees are found.

These patches, called " woodbushes," contain many hardwood trees of great size, their flora and fauna being altogether different from that immediately outside the wood.

The area of yellow pine forests (the stand is estimated at 67,568.5 million ft.), and the lesser one of hardwood, together with considerable softwood, represent lumber-producing possibilities of much economic importance.

The pine and hardwood areas occur chiefly in the north-eastern part of the state, and are bordered on the west by scattering growths of hardwood, extending as far westward as Austin.

There is scarcely any hardwood timber in the state.

In the manufacture of vehicles, harness, leather, hardwood lumber, wood-working machinery, machine tools, printing ink, soap, pig-iron, malt liquors, whisky, shoes, clothing, cigars and tobacco, furniture, cooperage goods, iron and steel safes and vaults, and pianos, also in the packing of meat, especially pork,' it ranks very high among the cities of the Union.

The most common hardwood trees are sugar maple, yellow birch, white birch and beech; these are widely distributed throughout the state, but are for the most part too young to be cut for lumber.

In the eastern forest region the number of species decreases somewhat from south to north, but the entire region differs from the densely forested region of the Pacific Coast Transition zone in that it is essentially a region of deciduous or hardwood forests, while the latter is essentially one of coniferous trees; it differs from the forested region of the Rocky Mountains in that the latter is not only essentially a region of coniferous trees, but one where the forests do not by any means occupy the whole area, neither do they approach in density or economic importance those of the eastern division of the country.

Even at the time when they were first known to Europeans, they had stone and lava hatchets, shark's-tooth knives, hardwood spades, kapa cloth or paper, mats, fans, fish-hooks and nets, woven baskets, &c., and they had introduced a rough sort of irrigation of the inland country with long canals from highlands to plains.

A great part of Ashanti is covered with primeval and almost impenetrable forest.1 Many of the trees, chiefly silk-cotton and hardwood, attain splendid proportions, the bombax reaching a height of over 200 ft., but the monotony is oppressive, and is seldom relieved by the sight of flowers, birds or beasts.

North of this southern hardwood forest there were pine forests on the sandier land, mixed hardwoods and conifers on the loam and clay, and tamaracks and cedar in the swamps.

In 1909 about 25% of the area was "cut over" or "burned over" lands, mostly the old pine woods, the region of the old hardwood forest was almost entirely farmland, and about 40% of the state was still in woods.

It is in a tobacco-growing region, is one of the largest hardwood lumber markets in the country, and has an important shipping trade in pork, agricultural products, dried fruits, lime and limestone, flour and tobacco.

Papuan weapons are the bow and arrow (in the Fly River region, the north and north-east coasts); a beheading knife of a sharp segment of bamboo; a shafted stone club - rayed, disk shaped or ball-headed (in use all over the island); spears of various forms, pointed and barbed; the spear-thrower (on the Finsch coast); and hardwood clubs and shields, widely differing in pattern and ornamentation with the district of their manufacture.

The wooden chair legs grated against the rough hardwood floor, echoing off the bare walls of her sparsely furnished living room.

This African hardwood sinks in water and is so hard they used to make ball bearings with it.

All our solid pine bedside cabinets come with turned beech hardwood handles for extra strength and durability.

Extended Performance X-ray - similar to the hardwood bolection bead (see Plasform original) for square or rectangular apertures only.

With frames and doors crafted from heavy Coast Sapele, there is a hardwood conservatory fit for every home.

In the UK and abroad, painted wooden dapple or dappled grays are even more popular with children than polished hardwood finishes.

A good doormat in the hallway stops sand and moisture at your front door and keeps them away from your hardwood flooring.

For a hardwood flooring however, excessive dryness is more harmful than too much humidity.

Donated Seats - Southend Pier There are two types of donated bench available for placement on Southend Pier - hardwood or steel fabricated.

Be careful not to stain the surface of the hardwood flooring with the glue.

The worktop is made from well matured solid beech hardwood, which has a beautiful grain.

The tropical hardwood is one of the most valuable tree species in the Amazon region.

It is made of lignum vitae, a dense tropical hardwood.

Made of yellow balau hardwood, it features a washable cream cotton canopy.

I had already heard horror stories of illegal loggers crunching their way into the forest in search of valuable hardwood.

Rare and exotic hardwood and Buffalo Horn and bone fine handcrafted handles made-to-order.