Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as round-tree.

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Examples

  • 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.

    5. Building with Unbonded Pumice 1990

  • · Readily available round-wood poles were used for the load-bearing framework.

    Chapter 11 1988

  • Addison saved the berries by stretching one of his cherry-tree nets over the round-wood tree, in October.

    When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine 1887

  • 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.

    When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine 1887

  • 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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