nibong

The uprights are of palm, and the elastic, gridiron floor of split laths of the invaluable nibong palm (oncosperma filamentosum).

The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004

At the top there was a primitive gridiron of loose nibong bars, and the river swirled so rapidly and dizzily below that I was obliged ignominiously to hold on to a Chinaman in order to reach the causeway safely.

The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004

In the chamber the meat is dried on a platform of spaced nibong slats (the palm “Oncosperma filamentosum”) covered with chicken wire and placed horizontally within the chamber, 1.5 m above ground level.

Chapter 5 1983

The leaf of the sago is preferable for the roofing of houses to the nibong.

The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy Henry Keppel

The dart used with the _sumpit_ is usually made of a thin splinter of the _nibong_ palm, stuck into a round piece of very light wood, so as to afford a surface for the breath to act upon.

Children of Borneo Edwin Herbert Gomes

Near it, two tall nibong palms, that seemed to have come out of the forests in the background, leaned slightly over the ragged roof, with a suggestion of sad tenderness and care in the droop of their leafy and soaring heads.

Tales of Unrest 1920

The uprights are of palm, and the elastic, gridiron floor of split laths of the invaluable nibong palm (oncosperma filamentosum).

The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither Isabella Lucy 1883

At the top there was a primitive gridiron of loose nibong bars, and the river swirled so rapidly and dizzily below that I was obliged ignominiously to hold on to a Chinaman in order to reach the causeway safely.

The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither Isabella Lucy 1883

The description of the women holding their market in boats stands good of to-day, but the wooden houses, instead of being on "strong piles," now stand on ricketty, round _nibong_ palm posts.

British Borneo Sketches of Brunai, Sarawak, Labuan, and North Borneo 1884

Sulu and Brunai labour is available for jungle-felling and house-building, and _nibong_ palms for posts and _nipa_ palms for thatch, walls and _kajangs_ exist in abundance.

British Borneo Sketches of Brunai, Sarawak, Labuan, and North Borneo 1884