Usage examples (9)

• The grip was a dowel of hazelwood with shallow finger grooves.
• Walking sticks of hazelwood or blackthorn, crafted in Ireland, come in a variety of styles from the Hooligan to St. Patrick.
• His hands had searched for a certain "feel" of wood, discarding one after another until he found an old hazelwood stick, debarked and bleached nearly white.
• For example, in one corner of the apartment there stood a hazelwood bureau with a bulging body on four grotesque legs — the perfect image of a bear.