My riflemen now knelt down and fired at the puffs of smoke as they issued from the impenetrable ironwood zareebas.
In the case of each successful harvest, the date of the sowing is recorded by driving a peg of ironwood into the ground at the point denoting the length of the mid-day shadow at that date.
The great gallant Ironwood went down in a huge arc--first his beautiful head, then the sinking arch of his neck, then the shoulders that had worked so wondrously.
No, nor any Ironwood Bay that came down from Courtrey's Stronghold, Bolt and Arrow not excepted.
Cow ponies and half-breeds of the Ironwoodstock which Courtrey would not keep at the Stronghold but was too close to kill, shouldered pintos from the Indian settlements, big, half-wild horses from over the mountains at the North.
Ironwood and was gone around the corner of the house with the sound of thunder.
He leaned down and struck the Ironwood with his open hand.
Knowlton's ironwood is found nowhere but in a thick grove on the southern slope of the canyon of the Colorado in Arizona, about seventy miles north of Flagstaff.
The hop hornbeam has habits like the other ironwood and an equal reputation for the hardness of its wood.
All being quickly arranged and the beds made, Creede threw an armful of ironwood upon the fire and they sat down to watch it burn.
In the Ironwood dwells Angerboda, together with a giant, who is gygjar hirdir, the guardian and watcher of the giantess.
She gathered ironwood and catclaw while he watched her vigilantly.
In the shade of the reed-thatched lokali house, before the hollow length of tree-trunk, the player worked his flat drumsticks of ironwood with amazing rapidity.
The gondola-like boats of ironwood that attract the attention of the stranger on his first visit to Bandjermasin, come from this place.
Formerly heavy spears made ofironwood were employed not only as weapons, but for agricultural purposes as well, both when making the holes into which the seed grains are dropped and as material in erecting the astronomical device.
He then replaced the ironwood floor with other material, and after that nobody who slept in the room was affected in a similar way.
They are made of ironwood and often higher than a man, but usually only the upper part is actually worked into shape, though many instances are observed of smaller statues the entire surface of which is crudely carved.
On his way he saw an ironwood pole in front of the room, went up to it, and began to dig under it.
All hands are hailed to the capstan, and every one of my fine gentlemen grasps an ironwood bar to hoist the monster home.
The ironwood capstan bars clanked to that seaman's music of running sailors.
Good players regard their ironwood heads much as golfers do their favourite driver, but they cut the reed shafts from the roadside as they want them.
Pecan nuts, and all woods ranging in hardness from ironwood down to ordinary pine and fir, were found to be in the second class of efficiency.
Where dogwood, ironwood and applewood are not to be obtained, make your gluts of what is at hand; that is true woodcraft (Fig.
The studs were of hard ironwood, and were each by tenon and mortise fastened into six ironwood trees forming the upper wall plates.
The roof was supported by four huge ironwood trees, and a fifth of equally hard wood, sunk about eight feet into the ground, surrounded by building at the base, and forming massive pillars.
However there are several high hills with steep exposures of rock a short distance north of Ironwood and Bessemer.
Peter's gray tweed coat flopped in a heap upon the ironwood deck.
Across the great room the girl raised a steady hand, indicating a desk of gigantic size, of ironwood or lignum-vitae.
The color of the bark in the ironwood is brownish, while that of the blue beech is bluish-gray.
The buds of the ironwood are greenish with brown tips, while the bud of the blue beech shows no green whatever.
She was engaged in felling a young ironwood tree, the stem of which was about fifteen inches in diameter.
Little Lucy, fast asleep and apparently quite unhurt, was before him, tied securely within the spreading arms of the white-ironwood log.
There is attached to it a round piece of ironwood of almost 4 inches in length, and 1-1/2 in diameter; this again is secured in a broad strap of leather to cross the mouth.
Inkwood (Exothea paniculata) is of the same family as white ironwood but of a different genus.
Iron as an adjective or ironwood as a noun is used in the same way for a number of trees.
It is the custom nearly everywhere to call any wood ironwood if it is extra hard.
Florida black ironwood is rated as the heaviest in the United States, and it weighs 81.
No fewer than eleven species of the United States are known as ironwood in some parts of their ranges.
A scarce and smaller species, known as buckthorn bumelia and ironwood (Bumelia lycioides) covers nearly the same range.
Red ironwood (Reynosia latifolia) of southern Florida belongs to a related species, and is sometimes called darling plum, because its purple fruit is edible.
Ten woods besides this are calledironwood in some parts of this country.
Nunn cut me a stoutironwood cudgel as a handy weapon.
Gardner supposed the ironwood tree of Ceylon to have been confounded with the Messua ferrea of Linnæus.
The maella (Olax Zeylanica) has always a copper colour; and the ironwood trees of the interior have a perfect blaze of young crimson leaves, as brilliant as flowers.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ironwood" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: ebony; oak; tree; wood
