This was a narrow archway about four feet six inches high, constructed of large pieces of hard wood that it was impossible to destroy.
The cattle zareeba is a circular stockade formed of a hard wood called by the Arabs abou-noos or abdnoos (ebony).
This is beaten with two short sticks of hard wood.
Of a very warlike disposition, they use as their principal weapon a particular kind of club, a sort of broadsword of hard wood.
It consists in rubbing a little stick of hard wood, bending it downward, against a log of soft wood held between the knees (Fig.
The most primitive apparatus consists of a log or board of soft wood, held horizontally with the feet, on which is placed the blunted point of a cylindrical stick of hard wood.
This is usually cut from a piece of hard wood, sycamore or pear.
Different varieties of wood have been tried, a great drawback being the contraction when the glue dries; this is markedly the case when a hard wood, powdered by glass-paper, is used.
A ladder of this kind is given a more presentable appearance if the rungs are let in square to the sides and flush, but at the sacrifice either of strength or lightness, unless narrow rungs of a hard wood, such as oak, be used.
In the centre of the underside of the standard make a deep dent, supporting the metal on hard wood or lead, so that it shall not be pierced.
The ladders are made of well twisted strands of rattan with steps of strong, hard wood, generally "bilian.
The hearth was generally near one of the doors in the centre of the hut, and fire was produced by rubbing a piece of hard wood on a larger piece of soft wood, and working it up and down in a groove till a spark was produced.
Some of their arms are beautifully made with carved handles of hard wood, and inlaid with silver, having sheaths of polished wood.
These mills are mostly made in Glasgow and have now in Pampanga entirely superseded the Chinese mills with vertical rollers of granite or the native mills with vertical rollers of hard wood.
This is constructed entirely of hard wood, and the pressure is obtained by driving wedges with a heavy mallet.
Plugging up one end and drilling a touch-hole, they would drive this tube into a hole bored in a log of hard wood turned on the outside to a taper, then they drove eight or nine wrought-iron rings over the wood.
The blade should be continued through the handle, which is formed by pinning two cheeks of hard wood or horn together.
The perch bolt (D) should be an iron pin, but may be a hard wood treenail.
The other line is passed through the central hole; and it will work more easily and wear out less quickly if a small ring or washer (f) of hard wood or sole leather is put on before the knot is turned upon its end.
An excellent method of getting out the teeth is as follows: Shape A piece of hard wood, as in Fig.
A is a bolt, B the brass, C a piece of hard wood, and P a clamp fastened down by a nut D.
The handle of hard wood is about a foot in length, half an inch in diameter, and slightly bowed in the plane of the blade, the convexity being in the direction of the cutting edge of the blade.
Many of the men wear also bracelets of shell or hard wood.
The sword-sheath is made from two slips of hard wood, cut to fit together exactly, leaving a space accurately shaped for the lodgment of the sword-blade.
The forests of Guiana furnish many species of hard wood, tough and elastic, out of which beautiful and excellent bows are formed.
A square hole, an inch deep, is then made in the end of this piece of hard wood, done tight round with cotton to keep it from splitting.
A piece of hard wood, about nine inches long, is inserted into the end of the reed, and fastened with cotton well waxed.
Holes were cut in the stone, and plugs of hard wood inserted.
The keys are generally made of hard wood, sometimes compressed by a special process, cut slightly taper, or wedge, shape, and driven in between the jaw of the chair and the vertical web of the rail.
These are necessary adjuncts, and should be made of hard wood, perfectly straight and just wide enough to take in the narrow back saw.
You may easily make a pair of saw clamps as follows: Take two pieces of hard wood, each three inches wide, seven-eighths of an inch thick, and equal in length to the longest saw.
Besides," said he, "if we decide on hard wood, who shall choose the kinds?
The floor should be smooth and hard, and the walls should be wainscoted with smooth, hard wood.
The bar must have an arm at one end, to reach over to the hub, said arm to be fitted with a piece of hard wood, to match the thread on the hub.
Such a mandrel, made of hard wood, hickory for instance, will last a long time.
It is also well to put a stout iron rod, or piece of hard wood, between the back center of the lathe and the face of the plate; this keeps everything steady, as shown below, so that a beautiful luster will be given by the tool alone.
The clamps consist of two straight pieces of soft or hard wood, lined with leather, though some use sheet lead.
This can be made in two ways--either the same as the amidships one, in a single piece cut from a soft wood, or in two pieces cut from a hard wood.
The stem and stern posts can be of three-quarter inch deal or hard wood, of sufficient length, and two to four inches deep, shaped out and secured with a galvanised iron or wooden knee to the keel.
Screw a piece of hard wood on the end of your lathe mandrel, turn it down to about a quarter of an inch less in diameter than the flanges of your cylinder, make a small hole for the stuffing-box to be driven in, as in Fig.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hard wood" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
