At Mudumalli there are plantations of both teak and sandal-wood; and the eucalyptus or Australian gum-tree grows on the Nilgiris in magnificent clumps.
The finest teak plantation is near Beypur in Malabar.
It is, moreover, the centre of the teak trade of Siam, in which many Burmese and several Chinese and European firms are engaged.
The east and west banks of the river are connected by a fine teak bridge.
There are teakforests also in the Mekong drainage area in the south of the state, but there is only a local market for the timber.
Teak forests exist in Mong Pu and Mong Hsat, and the sawbwa works them as government contracts.
Everything was calm except the mind of the man who paced the teak planking of the jetty.
Here teak and mango, palm and bamboo grow side by side, and are laced together by the octopus arms of the cobweb of creepers that spreads over the forest and tries in vain to bind down its splendid growth.
The mode adopted for this purpose by the Chinese is to bury the timber for a considerable time in marshy ground; thus treated, they say teak becomes hard as iron.
The main yards were made of teakquite rough; the upper one was seventy-five feet long, and the lower sixty.
Dolly Dugging I teak ta be my wife sir, I did noutt but cry she lid me sic a life sir, I niver efter smiled nor spent ane hour i' laughter, She war a hangel forst but she proved a deevil efter.
The poor aud man wha teak the towl At Collingham bar for monny a year, He dursn't cum out to opp'n his yat For fear the ghost sud be near.
He had no doubt that the roof of the outside temple had started from this point; and that the grooves were made for the ends of massive rafters, of teak or stone.
I have spoken to my uncle about you, and he will be glad to appoint you to the position of purchaser, for our house, of teak and other native products in these provinces.
We have almost a monopoly of the teak trade, in Burma; and it would be much more advantageous for us to make our purchases in England, instead of here.
There is certain to be a very big trade here, in teak alone.
The poor awd man wha teak the toll At Collingham bar for monny a year, He dursn't coom out to oppen his yat(2) For fear the ghost sud be near.
Suddenly he snatches his walking stick from the teak table, and draws it; for it is a swordstick.
THE MAN [with a mixture of confusion and effrontery, depositing his hat and stick on the teak table].
Nurse Guinness returns with the tea-tray, which she places on the teak table].
A thundering had started on the great teak door below--a thundering that echoed through the dome like the reverberations of an earthquake.
No places, those, for strong men to live alone in, where night-breezes whisper through forgotten passages and dry teak planking recreaks to the memory of dead men's footsteps.
In a summer home on a farm people of sense don't use Persian rugs orteak wood.
If you'll only come you may furnish it in teak wood and Chinese embroidery, and I'll be contented on my--bare floors.
He is the leading hand in the teak trade of Burmah,--unrivalled in the heavy toil of the timber-yard, where he piles logs with wonderful neatness and quickness.
An electric motor in the after part of the hull is coupled directly to the shaft of the screw propeller, and fed by "E P S" accumulators in teak boxes lodged under the deck amidships.
Electrical Power Storage Company is illustrated in figure 21, and consists of a glass or teak box containing two sets of leaden grids perforated with holes, which are primed with the paste and steeped in dilute sulphuric acid.
Teak is at present brought from the Burman dominions.
It is quite possible that the carved teak wood stimulated the clever maker of some of the most beautiful Victorian furniture made in America, which is gradually finding its way into the hands of collectors.
Also a Chinese and Japanese influence crept in, on account of the lacquer and carved teak wood, brought home by our seafaring ancestors.
The craft that last carried me about those seas was an old teak P.
Teak suggests oak, save that it is lighter and has a more uniform structure.
It is not impossible that wood passing as teak may be derived from yet other species.
The distinct African teak (Oldfieldia africana) affords wood sometimes marketed as African mahogany and sometimes as African oak.
In 1985 teak replaced rice as the largest export and continues to hold this position.
Across the avenue of teak which had been the Nubian's bulwarks he saw the Dutchman's galley, now a summer-house set in parterres of tulips.
With its six-inch teak planks and bronze bolts its weight must be guessed at in tons-- yet a horse can hardly carry a man along any of the trails that lead to Khinjan!
The great teak door looked as if it had been stolen from some Hindu temple, and he wondered how and when they could have brought it there across those savage intervening miles.
To this end he selected a lovely spot in the vicinity of Chiengmai, called Saraburee, itself a city of some consideration, where bamboo houses line the banks of a beautiful river, that traverses teak forests alive with large game.
The exports of Siam are various and profitable; and of the raw materials, teak timber is entitled to the first consideration.
British oak or Indian teak was nothing against bombs that would tear out the sides.
Bombay was at this time the seat of British naval excellence in ship building, and an eighty-gun vessel, built of teak or India oak, was launched every three years.
The shades were low and the place was filled with shadows, shadows that made the close walls seem very far apart, and the teak wood bookcase quite remote.
From the top shelf of the teak wood bookcase she took down a Japanese rose jar, and from it drew out a little card portrait of a young sweet-faced girl.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "teak" 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
