Split bamboo andlancewood are two of the best rod materials.
The best materials are ash for the stock, lancewood for the middle, and bamboo for the tip.
In the city a few weeks ago I proudly displayed a four-ounce, nine-foot lancewood rod, and my friends laughed at me, saying it was too frail for any service.
I use a lancewood rod, but of course the higher-priced popular split bamboo is just as good.
Involuntarily I raise myself by a muscular action as though the cords and sinews of my body could relieve the pressure on the lancewood and save the rod.
It was a thirty-pound lancewood bow, with horn notches at the tips, a handsome bow, and a good one, as he had reason to know.
Frank Merriwell came into the room, holding a handsome lancewood bow and a sheaf of arrows.
The black lancewood or carisiri of Guiana (Guatteria virgata) grows to a height of 50 ft.
Lancewood is used by carriage-builders for shafts; but since the practice of employing curved shafts has come largely into use it is not in so great demand as formerly.
Spanish yew is considered the choicest, next comes the Italian, then the English yew; lancewood and lancewood backed with hickory are used more than any other.
The bow is from five to six feet long, made of lancewood or locust.
This would be a fearful country for any one to be lost in, as there is nothing to guide them, and one cannot see more than three hundred yards around, the gum-trees are so thick, and the small belts of lancewood make it very deceptive.
Within a hundred yards the banks are thickly wooded with tall mulga and lancewood scrub; but to the east is open gum forest, splendidly grassed.
We met with a little rain water at three miles, where the soil became sandy; continued to be more so as we advanced, with lancewood and other scrubs growing upon it.
The country then became sandy, with gum, spinifex, and lancewood scrub, not difficult to get through.
Lancewood fishing rods are among the strongest and most expensive on the market; but little of the material of which they are made grows in Florida.
For heavy sea rods, lancewood may serve the purpose fairly well, but for the smaller fishing tools this material is inferior to Bethabara, greenheart, and dagame.
Lancewood is much used in turning out the cheaper grades of fishing rods, but it is somewhat soft and has a marked tendency to take set under the strain of fishing and warp out of shape.
Standard lancewood bows will cost two or three dollars, arrows from one to two dollars a dozen, and targets from two to five dollars each, with three dollars extra for the target stand.
The modern bow used in archery is made of lancewood or yew and for men's use is usually 6 feet long and for women and children 6 inches shorter.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lancewood" 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
