Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
round-tree .
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Examples
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The fact that the vertical poles are fastened to a flexible round-wood or bamboo-pole tie beam at the top and inclined toward each other on all sides ensures adequate stability to cope with vertical and horizontal seismic ground motion.
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· Readily available round-wood poles were used for the load-bearing framework.
Chapter 11 1988
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Addison saved the berries by stretching one of his cherry-tree nets over the round-wood tree, in October.
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In the rear of the wagon-house there grew a good-sized mountain ash or round-wood tree which nearly every fall was crowned with the usual great bright-red clusters of bitter berries.
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The wood was chiefly yellow birch, spruce, fir, mountain-ash, or round-wood, as the Maine people call it, and moose-wood.
The Maine Woods 1858
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