iron-wood

The ogre's fist smashed into the trunk of the iron-wood tree.

Falcon Street 2010

The salon, floored entirely with iron-wood, was painted in a style that suggested the beauties of Chinese lacquer.

Modeste Mignon 2007

Clotilde de Rupt, at this time five-and-thirty, and as good as widowed, with a husband who turned egg-cups in every variety of wood, who set his mind on making wheels with six spokes out of iron-wood, and manufactured snuff-boxes for everyone of his acquaintance, flirted in strict propriety with Amedee de Soulas.

Albert Savarus 2007

Clotilde de Rupt, at this time five-and-thirty, and as good as widowed, with a husband who turned egg-cups in every variety of wood, who set his mind on making wheels with six spokes out of iron-wood, and manufactured snuff-boxes for everyone of his acquaintance, flirted in strict propriety with Amedee de Soulas.

Albert Savarus 2007

The wood is hard, and of a fine red color, and is named iron-wood by the Portuguese.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

Luckily I had a few tools of my own, including a small saw and some chisels, and these were now severely tried, cutting and fitting heavy iron-wood planks for the flooring and the posts that support the triangular mast.

The Malay Archipelago 2004

About twenty meters up it led him into a sparse stand of iron-wood trees, and he leaned against one and studied the view.

The Life of the World to Come Baker, Kage 2004

The door itself was of the black oak that was tougher than iron-wood, but the latch was simple.

Timegod's World Modesitt, L. E. 1992

Bink marveled at this; unrusted iron-wood could be harvested only from freshly felled trees, and not even a magic axe could cut those very well.

The Source of Magic Anthony, Piers 1979

We penetrated the wild native woods, where grew the iron-wood tree, the oak, the black cinnamon, the apple, the acacia, the tamarind, and the nutmeg.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 538, March 17, 1832 Various