Lexic.us

Definition of Hard beech

1. Noun. Tall New Zealand tree yielding very hard wood.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hard Beech

Literary usage of Hard beech

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Wood: A Manual of the Natural History and Industrial Applications of the by George Simonds Boulger (1908)
"J Broad rays numerous: rings bending inwards at the rays: reddish-white or light brown: hard. Beech ..."

2. Wood: A Manual of the Natural History and Industrial Applications of the by George Simonds Boulger (1902)
"I Broad rays numerous: rings bending inwards at the rays: reddish-white or light brown: hard. Beech ..."

3. Commercial Raw Materials: Their Origin, Preparation and Uses by Charles Robinson Toothaker, Philadelphia Museums (1905)
"The bark is used extensively for baskets, boats, cordage, dyeing and tanning. Beech is a valuable wood for many purposes. It is heavy, hard, BEECH strong, ..."

4. Wood Products: Distillates and Extracts by Paul Dumesny, J. Noyer (1908)
"Wood may for this purpose be classified thus : Very hard, Hawthorn ; Hard, Maple, Box and Wild Cherry ; liather hard, Oak, Plum, Elm ; Slightly hard, Beech, ..."

5. Wood products: Distillates and Extracts by Paul Dumesny, J. Noyer (1908)
"Wood may for this purpose be classified thus: Very hard, Hawthorn ; Hard, Maple, Box and Wild Cherry; Rather hard, Oak, Plum, Elm; Slightly hard, Beech, ..."

6. Timber and Timber Trees, Native and Foreign by Thomas Laslett (1894)
"Moms rubra, the Red Mulberry of the Atlantic states, is used in ship-building, and the Hackberry (Celtis occidentalis) yields a hard Beech-like timber. ..."

7. The Future of War in Its Technical, Economic, and Political Relations by Jan Bloch (1899)
"... 3.6 inches of hard beech- wood, and finally pine planks I inch thick, at a distance of 32^ feet from one another. ....pa SIM 7, 8, 9. Soft bullets. ..."

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