tooart

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A valuable eucalypt of southwestern Australia, Eucalyptus gomphocephala. It grows 120 feet high, with a clear trunk of 50 feet. The wood is one of the strongest known, very heavy, very durable under exposure, unwedgeable, and unusually free from defects. It is used in ship-building for beams, keelsons, stern-posts, and other works below the line of flotation, where great strength is required and weight is not objectionable. It would be available for piles, and many other purposes. Also tuart and tewart.