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Definition of Lacewood
1. Noun. Variably colored and sometimes variegated hard tough elastic wood of a sycamore tree.
Definition of Lacewood
1. Noun. Any of several types of wood that has a coarse texture, but especially that from several varieties of sycamore ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lacewood
1. an Australian tree [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lacewood
Literary usage of Lacewood
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Timber by James Rae Baterden (1908)
"... on the quarter under the name " lacewood," and used for veneer and fretwork.
The true lacewood is the produce of ..."
2. Appleton's Dictionary of Machines, Mechanics, Engine-work, and Engineering by D. Appleton and Company, Oliver Byrne (1852)
"The same circumstances occur in a less degree in all the woods containing the
silver grain oriental plane-tree, or lacewood, sycamore, beech, ..."
3. Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue by Robert Ellis, Great Britain Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851, London Great exhibition of the works of industry of all nations, 1851 (1851)
"... garnishing meats, &c. ; cut out of vegetables, such aa carrots, turnips,
beet-roots, &,c. Pine. Larch. Scotch. Pine Fir. Plane tree lacewood, Levant. ..."
4. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases, and Usages by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"Lace-bark, Lacey-bark, or lacewood, n. names for Ribbon- wood (qv). The inner
bark of the tree is like fine lace. 1876. WN Blair, 'Transactions of New ..."
5. Official Catalogue (1884)
"FOX, T. & CO, 77 Bishopsgate Street Within, BC—Bedroom Furniture made of lacewood,
and Satinwood inlay. 907. ARMSTRONG, JAMES T. & CO., ..."
6. Wood: A Manual of the Natural History and Industrial Applications of the by George Simonds Boulger (1908)
"W 42. It is used for furniture. The latter is lighter in colour and weight iW
36-5), and finer in grain. lacewood. See Plane. ..."
7. Wood: A Manual of the Natural History and Industrial Applications of the by George Simonds Boulger (1902)
"... the burrs of Yew, largely used for tea- caddies, etc., in the 18th century;
those of Walnut; and the beautiful lacewood or Honeysuckle wood of North ..."
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