Amongst the palm family new to me was a very beautiful Licuala, perhaps the most beautiful of all fan-leaved palms, and a climbing palm, one of the rattans (Korthalzia sp.
These ladders are made of long rattans from various climbing palms.
Graceful rattans shoot up in tall ladders of foliage-hidden cane, climbing to the topmost fronds of the loftiest palm, and, unless ruthlessly cut down, overthrowing the stately tree with their fatal embrace.
Not only wonderful but most elegant it was, for the rattans had been disposed symmetrically.
Huge bamboos, lashed end to end, were suspended over the abyss by rattans beyond counting, fixed in the trees at either side.
The thorns of the rattans reached down and tore our clothes, and long trailing rubber-vines caught up our helmets and held our feet.
Contrary to the advice of the Chief Justice, I only took a heavy hunting-knife with me, and it was more for slashing away thorns and rattans than for protection.
Tan bark, dyewoods, valuable gums and rattansfind a ready sale.
The forest vegetation is here of the most luxuriant character; ferns and palms abound, and the climbing rattans were more abundant than I had ever seen them, forming tangled festoons over almost every large forest tree.
For the first half of the distance there was no path, and we had often to cut our way through tangled rattans or thickets of bamboo.
In building whereof there is not so much as a nail used; but instead of them every thing which might be nailed, is tyed with rattans and other strings, which grow in the woods in abundance; whence the builder hath his Timber for cutting.
Prickly rattans and Plectocomia climbed amongst these, their enormous plumes of foliage upborne by the matted branches of the trees, and their arrowy tops shooting high above the forest.
About two feet six inches from the floor there are two rattans on each side, and about two feet three inches above these again are three rattans on the lower, and four on the upper side.
One day, while cutting rattans in a shed, a cobra bit his thumb.
They brought with them beeswax, damar, honey, or rattans to exchange for those things.
At last we circumvented them by slinging the nests by long rattans from the roof.
Rattans are collected in the jungle by the men, and by them carried to market; both sexes together prepare it, by scraping and splitting, for sale.
Immense quantities of cotton print, of every pattern and colour imaginable, were hung from rattans crossing the upper portion of the roof to within about 7 feet from the floor; the upper part was a nearly solid mass of cotton.
The mainyard, an immense affair nearly a hundred feet long, was formed of many pieces of wood and bamboo bound together with rattans in an ingenious manner.
The native Malay anchor is ingeniously constructed of a piece of tough forked timber, the fluke being strengthened by twisted rattans binding it to the stem, while the cross-piece is formed of a long flat stone, secured in the same manner.
It was made of rattans and covered with cotton twist, so as to be both light, strong, and very tough.
They had been on deck about ten minutes, when three or four men, with large panama straw hats on their heads, and long rattans in their hands, jumped upon the gunnel, and in a few seconds drove them all down below.
The various classes of canes, rattans and others of the Calamus family, have a great importance and value.
When all is ready, some men step out from the circle to help the nearest of kin in the next proceedings, which consist in tying the corpse up tightly into a bundle by means of rattans and creepers.
This consists of a strong rope of plaited rattans stretched in a straight line across the jungle, from tree to tree, some five feet above the ground.
Rattans are tied round it a little above its middle and passed over a tall tripod of stout poles.
A number of small rattans are tied to the bar about its middle, their other ends being made fast to a log.
The close-fitting hemispherical war-cap is made of rattans about half an inch thick split in halves.
The hunters, having kept the log in sight, then attach the ends of the rattans to the boat, tow the reptile to the bank, and haul him up on dry land.
Between the upper ends of these, rattansare tied, connecting together all the bamboos on each area of about one acre.
From each such group a rattan passes to the hut, and some person, generally a woman or child, is told off to tug at these rattans in turn at short intervals.
The former is a round closely-fitting cap woven of stout rattans split in halves longitudinally.
A pot of this sort is carried in a basket made of fine unsplit rattans loosely woven in the form of interlacing rings.
Upon the rattans between the bamboos are hung various articles calculated to make a noise or to flap to and fro when the system is set in motion.
The half BUKA is also in general use, especially in measuringrattans cut for sale, the required length of which is two and a half BUKA.
On the inside face other bamboos were lashed, with rattans across them.
As soon as the last had come in, the bamboos were put in the holes prepared for them, with some rattans twined between them.
No, I know that; but we might cut these rattans which bind them together.
With this and the assistance of rattans tied to the opposite side we effected our passage and arrived at Rantau Kramas.
They have a diversion similar to that described by Homer as practised among the Phaeacians, which consists in tossing an elastic wicker ball or round basket of split rattans into the air, and from one player to another, in a peculiar manner.
The fibrous substance of the husk is not there manufactured into cordage, as in the west of India where it is known by the name of coir; rattans and eju (a substance to be hereafter described) being employed for that purpose.
We had much difficulty in getting the mortar and its bed down, being obliged to make use of long thickrattans tied to them and successively to several trees.
Rattans or rotan (Calamus rotang) furnish annually many large cargoes, chiefly from the eastern side of the island, where the Dutch buy them to send to Europe; and the country traders for the western parts of India.
Davidson pointed out to his Chinaman that the fellow was certain to have some rattans to ship.
He thought he saw an opening to do business with rattans there, if only he could depend on some craft to bring out trading goods and take away his produce.
Beside rice, rattans are found in great quantities, and likewise Malacca canes, but whether of good quality I am not able to say.
They were naked to the waist, and ornamented with several cinctures of brass and colored rattans scraped very thin.
Bees-wax is another article to be procured here at present to the amount of thirty or forty peculs per year from Sibnow, Malacca canes a small ship-load, rattans in abundance, and any quantity of Garu wood.
My house was my castle; and, when I stirred abroad, two men preceded me with rattans to keep my path clear from women and children.
It has often cost our soldiers considerable trouble to get those people; for those houses have no approach except certain light ladders made from rattans tied together.
It had no other approaches or mode of ascent than certain ladders made of rattans [bexucos], which resemble strong osiers.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rattans" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
