gopher-wood

Aifinkso Ai gots a couple of cubits of gopher-wood arownd teh garadj somewhere, adn maybe a firkin of pitch.

Landing - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

"One was made of gopher-wood -- the other was Maid of Orleans."

Holidays at the Grange or A Week's Delight Games and Stories for Parlor and Fireside Emily Mayer Higgins

Noah, no doubt, after a year in the ark, came to look upon it as so much gopher-wood, and appreciated it as a good job of joinery rather than a divine symbol.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 Various

Make thyself an ark of gopher-wood; make the ark with cells; and smear it with pitch within and without.

Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942

When the ark of "gopher-wood" (mentioned only here) was at length completed according to the command of the Lord, the living creatures that were to be preserved entered into it; and then Noah and his wife and sons and daughters-in-law entered it, and the "Lord shut him in" (Gen. 7: 16).

Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897

Noah's ark, a building of gopher-wood, and covered with pitch,

Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897

I will make an ark of gopher-wood, the length thereof 300 cubits, the breadth of it 50 cubits, and the height of it 30 cubits, and I will pitch it within and without with pitch.

The Holy Cross and Other Tales Eugene Field 1872

These boys inherited from their father a violent penchant for aquatics, and scarcely a day passed that they did not paddle around the bayous and sloughs of the Euphrates in their gopher-wood canoes.

The Holy Cross and Other Tales Eugene Field 1872

The ark was built of gopher-wood, which is thought by some to be pine, by others cedar.

Man on the Ocean A Book about Boats and Ships R. [Illustrator] Richardson 1859

He could effortlessly execute the double pun: Noah's Ark was made of gopher-wood, he would say, but Joan of Arc was maid of Orleans.

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