Word Finder - wooden

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Made of wood.

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On a recent windy day, hundreds of visitors climbed wooden stairs to take pictures in front of the glacier.

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As if made of wood; moving awkwardly, or speaking with dull lack of emotion.

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wooden acting

It replaced an old wooden one that burned.

The master bedroom had wooden patio doors that opened on a balcony facing east.

She opened the heavy wooden door and stepped into an open-air hallway.

The mother gave each a tin plate and a wooden spoon, and then helped them all to boiled beans.

Watching the wooden folks.

The floor plan was open and relaxed, with wooden floors giving warmth to cream furniture.

The Wizard's sword-blade snapped into a dozen pieces at the first blow he struck against the wooden people.

The single portal was a thick wooden door that he secured with an equally thick board that fitted across the entire opening on the outside.

The wooden door and whitewashed walls --along with the open window above the bed allowing in balmy air --soon brought to mind a more tropical place.

Rhyn's body felt wooden, and his heart flew.  He opened the door to the antechamber and stopped, surprised at who sat within.

The flames leaped up at once and the bonfire began to smoke and roar and crackle just as the great army of wooden Gargoyles arrived.

I heard her snarl from behind the wooden door.

The house was cozy and simple, with creaky wooden floors covered in rugs, a pot-bellied stove still warm, and worn furniture.

The furniture was worn and rustic with wooden frames and upholstered cushions.

A quiet breeze traveled between massive wooden doors opened on both sides of the great hall.

Had a heavy wooden door with a big ol' paddle lock.

They stopped at a wooden door, which the woman flung open.

The top of its head was carved into a crown and the Wizard's bullet had struck it exactly in the left eye, which was a hard wooden knot.

Dorothy must take her parasol and open it suddenly when the wooden folks attack her.

The wooden things wound their long arms around Zeb and the Wizard and held them fast.

The sidewalks were wooden and the street was dusty and unpaved.

They spoke in German as they made their way down the narrow wooden stairwell to the packed bar.

Her feet were cold on the wooden floor, and she'd caught herself looking down many times to see if she made grass grow here, too.

Looking out, they could see into some of the houses near them, where there were open windows in abundance, and were able to mark the forms of the wooden Gargoyles moving about in their dwellings.

Eureka quickly followed him, and soon they were all standing together upon the platform, with eight of the much prized wooden wings beside them.

With exaggerated care Cynthia mounted the wooden catwalk atop the penstock, holding Dean's hand tightly.

Alex took her hand as they started up the wooden ramp, and laced his fingers through hers.

Beyond them was a crude wooden floored arena hedged by rows of shouting people.

The plants under these conditions often require to be supported by wooden pegs or sticks.

Thus shallow square or oblong wooden boxes, made of light, inexpensive wood, are very useful for seedsowing, for pricking out seedlings, or for planting cuttings.

If roots have been placed in cellars, attention must be given to ventilation, which can be done by making a wooden box, say 6 by 8 in., to run from the ceiling of the cellar to the eaves of the building above.

Flour is the principal product; among others are woollen goods, foundry and machineshop products, wooden ware, sash, doors and blinds, caskets, shirts, wagons and packed meats.

A little below the abbey is the parish church of St Mary, originally Norman, and retaining traces of the first building; owing to a variety of alterations at different periods, and the erection of high wooden pews and galleries, its appearance is more remarkable than beautiful.

Wooden ships and boats are still built, and rope-making and sail-making are carried on.

A variety of manufactures are carried on, including the making of leather goods, carved wooden vessels, finely plaited mats, embroidered work, shoes of yellow and red leather and pottery of various kinds.

The fire broke out on the night of the 18th of July, 64, among the wooden booths at the south-east end of the Circus Maximus.

Later, earthenware vessels were employed, but the wooden cask -not to mention the glass bottle-was not generally known until a much later period.

The best rippler, or apparatus for separating the seed capsules from the branches, consists of a kind of comb having, set in a wooden frame, iron teeth made of round-rod iron i ths of an inch asunder at the bottom, and half an inch at the top, and 18 in.

For open pools and dams Schenck substitutes large wooden vats under cover, into which the flax is tightly packed in an upright position.

Blaeu's improvement consisted of putting the spindle of the screw through a square block which was guided in the wooden frame, and from this block the platen was suspended by wires or cords.

From this it will be observed that in a general way there had only been two kinds of wooden presses in use for a period of no less than three hundred and fifty years, and when the work of some of the early printers is studied, it is marvellous how often good results were obtained from such crude appliances.

The upper part of the staple, called the nut, answered the same purpose as the head in the older kind of wooden press, and was in fact a box with a female screw in which the screw of the spindle worked.

The bar by which the power was applied by the pressman was fixed into the arbor, and not into the spindle, so that the lever was the whole width of the press, instead of half, as in Blaeu's wooden press, and it was better placed for the application of the worker's strength.

In the Polyesie the principal occupations are connected with the export of timber and firewood, the preparation of pitch, tar, potash and wooden wares, and boat-building.

Domestic industry in the villages is chiefly limited to the making of wooden goods, including parquetry.

St Pierre has wooden exterior galleries and two fine Gothic porches.

The ground ore was stirred with this solution at 7 C. in wooden tubs until all the copper was dissolved.

This is mainly occupied by Djurgarden (the deer-park), a beautiful park containing the buildings of the northern museum, a collection of Scandinavian costumes and domestic and agricultural utensils, and a biological museum housed in a wooden building imitating the early Norwegian timber churches (stavekirke).

There is also a considerable trade in wooden work, vegetables, early fruit and wine.

The industries of the town include the manufacture of wooden shoes, bellow's and agricultural implements.