单词 | raft wood |
释义 | > as lemmasraft wood raft wood n. timber used for building rafts; spec. balsa wood from the tree Ochroma pyrimidale. ΚΠ 1823 A. Hodgson Remarks during Journey through N. Amer. 158 Their shores loaded with raft-wood, which was then floating down the bay in immense quantities. 1861 Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 31 184 The Raft-wood trees, species of Ochroma (of the N. O. Bombaceæ). They begin to be found..say from 3000 feet elevation downwards. 1880 C. R. Markham Peruvian Bark 225 One of the rafts..was composed of twelve trunks of raft-wood. 1973 Amer. Anthropologist 75 1846/1 When fishermen's raft wood disappears, so will they, at least as independent producers. < as lemmas |
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