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sap-wood
ˈsap-wood [sap n.1] = alburnum.1791 E. Darwin Bot. Gard. i. Add. Notes 96 The placental vessels..are transformed from sap-wood..into inert wood. 1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art I. 258 Boards..free from..sap-wood. 1887 C. A. Moloney Forestry W. Afr. 353 A deep reddish-brown heartwood and light sap-...
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Uapaca heudelotii
It’s made up of sap-wood that is light-colored, heart-wood that is a reddish-brown color, and the inner bark containing a sticky red sap.
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heart-wood
ˈheart-wood 1. A name for the central part of the timber of exogenous trees, hardened and matured by age; duramen.1801 Knight in Phil. Trans. XCI. 351 Ossified within the heart-wood. 1876 Oxford Bible-Helps 113 Ebony..is the heart-wood of the date-tree. 1880 Gray Struct. Bot. iii. §3. 80 In all tree...
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Ocotea bullata
The wood is dark walnut or reddish brown to black with a yellow sap-wood, and the grain extremely fine, close, dense and smooth.
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soft-wood
soft wood, soft-wood Also as one word. [soft a.] 1. a. Wood which is relatively soft or easily cut; esp. coniferous trees or their timber. Also attrib.1832 Planting (L.U.K.) 77 The..discriminating characters of hard and of soft woods. 1857 Gray First Less. Bot. 147 In soft woods, such as White-Pine ...
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Margaritaria discoidea
The sap-wood is yellowish, and the heartwood is pinkish-white to brownish-red, hard, heavy, of medium texture, not difficult to work and is suitable for
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alburnum
alburnum (ælˈbɜːnəm) [a. L. alburnum, f. alb-us white.] The whiter, softer, and more recently formed wood in exogenous trees, between the bark and heart-wood; the sap-wood.1664 Evelyn Silva (1776) 524 That whiter, softer, fatty part called by the antients Alburnum. 1791 E. Darwin Bot. Gard. i. 96 Sa...
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Ketaki Kushari Dyson
Calcutta for eminent contribution to contemporary Bengali letters (1986)
Star Ananda Award in Bengali Literature
Selected work
Poetry
Bokol (1997)
Sap-wood
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sapper
▪ I. sapper1 (ˈsæpə(r)) [f. sap v.1 + -er1, after F. sapeur.] 1. One who saps; spec. a soldier employed in working at saps, the building and repairing of fortifications, the execution of field-works, and the like. The non-commissioned officers and privates of the Engineers were formerly called the (...
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Compagnie minière de Carmaux
An experiment with acacia wood reported in 1836 found it was much more durable in the same situation, unaffected after four years except at the sap-wood
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sap
▪ I. sap, n.1 (sæp) Forms: 1 sæp, sep, 4 Kentish zep, 5 saap(pe, 5–7 sappe, 6 sape, sapp, 4– sap. [Com. WGer.: OE. sæp, genit. sæpes (prob. neut.) = MLG., LG., MDu., Du. sap, neut. (Flemish zap), OHG. saf, genit. saffes, neut. (MHG. saf, saft, neut., mod.G. saft, masc., whence Sw. saft, fem., Da. sa...
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1978 in poetry
Ketaki Kushari Dyson, Sap-wood, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India.
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Wood shingle
The heartwood is removed by splitting parallel to the grain, and the bark and sap-wood and any imperfections such as rot or bug holes are removed.
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notch
▪ I. notch, n. (nɒtʃ) Also 7–8 noch, 8 knotch. [app. ad. older F. oche (mod.F. hoche) of the same meaning, with n of the article prefixed (see N 3). There is thus no original connexion with nock n.1 Examples of the verb oche occur in the alliterative Morte Arthur (c 1400), but the n. has app. not be...
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list
▪ I. † list, n.1 Obs. Forms: 1 hlyst, 2–4 lust(e, 3–4 list(e, lyst, 4 lest, 4–6 list. [OE. hlyst masc. and fem. = OS. hlust fem., ON. hlust fem.:—OTeut. *hlusti-z:—OAryan *klusti-s (Skr. {cced}rušti obedience), f. root *klus- (:kleus- :klous-), OTeut. *hlū̆s- (:hleus- :hlaus-), found also in the vbs...
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