The shafts or handles O, of the levers P, are of lancewood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fire Prevention and Fire Extinction] Reference

For goodness 'sake, Will, never call that dandy lancewood rod by such a degrading name again.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Outdoor Chums at Cabin Point or The Golden Cup Mystery] Reference

Increased incidence of extensive hot fires may also be leading to the reduction of lancewood-bullwaddy environments.    From Wordnik.com.  [Victoria Plains tropical savanna] Reference

Variation in vertebrate species composition across the environmental range occupied by lancewood vegetation in the Northern Territory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Victoria Plains tropical savanna] Reference

The whole journey from the sand hills has been through a dense forest of scrubs of all kinds — hedge-tree, gum, mulga, lancewood, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journals of John McDouall Stuart] Reference

The modern bow used in archery is made of lancewood or yew and for men's use is usually 6 feet long and for women and children 6 inches shorter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Outdoor Sports and Games] Reference

The ecoregion includes the most extensive stands of lancewood-bullwaddy found in Australia, but this is generally a fairly depauperate environment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Victoria Plains tropical savanna] Reference

The habitat types within these reserves range from eucalypt woodland, chenopod shrubland, bluebush, lancewood, gidgee, and grasslands to Acacia woodlands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mitchell grass downs] Reference

The rainforest element is so pronounced that Russell-Smith considered lancewood vegetation to be one of the 16 rainforest types in the Northern Territory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Victoria Plains tropical savanna] Reference

Standard lancewood bows will cost two or three dollars, arrows from one to two dollars a dozen, and targets from two to five dollars each, with three dollars extra for the target stand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Outdoor Sports and Games] Reference

The shafts of the levers are of lancewood, being best calculated to bear the strain to which they are exposed when the engine is at work, and they are made to fold up at each end for convenience in travelling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fire Prevention and Fire Extinction] Reference

In the Kynuna-Winton area of Queensland, mesas formed by resistant tertiary duricrusts are vegetated by stands of lancewood (Acacia shirleyi) and low eucalypt communities with a spinifex (Triodia spp.) groundcover.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mitchell grass downs] Reference

At 3.20 p.m. changed to 20 degrees north of east; the first ten miles were over a plain of gums covered with grass two feet long; we had then six miles of spinifex, and a thick scrub of dwarf lancewood, as tough as whalebone.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journals of John McDouall Stuart] Reference

Previous post on lancewood and coastal five-finger hybridisation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum Blogs] Reference

Why we like it: The lancewood tree plays many roles in the garden.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Pseudopanax hybrids between lancewood and coastal five-finger near Porirua.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum Blogs] Reference

Slender, spreading branches with an open-rounded crown, the lancewood has an elegant appearance.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

The country then became sandy, with gum, spinifex, and lancewood scrub, not difficult to get through.    From Wordnik.com.  [Explorations in Australia The Journals of John McDouall Stuart] Reference

Descended towards the plains over stony rises, with gum-tree, lancewood, and other scrub and spinifex.    From Wordnik.com.  [Explorations in Australia The Journals of John McDouall Stuart] Reference

Some are of a dark colour of various shades and very compact; others light-coloured and resembling in texture box or lancewood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2] Reference

The whole journey from the sand hills has been through a dense forest of scrubs of all kinds -- hedge-tree, gum, mulga, lancewood, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Explorations in Australia The Journals of John McDouall Stuart] Reference

Within a hundred yards the banks are thickly wooded with tall mulga and lancewood scrub; but to the east is open gum forest, splendidly grassed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Explorations in Australia The Journals of John McDouall Stuart] Reference

A stirrer must be provided, made of lancewood, flat, and perforated with holes the size of a sixpence, resembling in form a large palette-knife.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants] Reference

With the exception of lancewood, lemon wood, or osage orange, which are hard to get, the next best wood to yew is red Tennessee cedar backed with hickory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hunting with the Bow and Arrow] Reference

And in the catching of the black bass there came eventually to the nine-ounce split bamboo in her little hands as many trophies as to his heavier lancewood.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Man and a Woman] Reference

We met with a little rain water at three miles, where the soil became sandy; continued to be more so as we advanced, with lancewood and other scrubs growing upon it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Explorations in Australia The Journals of John McDouall Stuart] Reference

He had two jointed fish-poles -- one a light, split bamboo, such as is used in fly-fishing, and the other a stout lancewood, for such heavy fish as black bass and pike.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Trapper] Reference

Growing right next door to the museum is all the food and materials for feasts, gifts and domestic appliances, such as raupo, ferns, lancewood, flaxes (harakeke) and horopito.    From Wordnik.com.  [NZ On Screen] Reference

Woods such as ebony, sandalwood, cherry, brier, box, pear-tree, lancewood, and many others, are all good for the carver, but are better fitted for special purposes and small work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wood-Carving Design and Workmanship] Reference

It includes five activities, including traps and storage for tuna or eels, and snares for manu or birds, as well as displays on the use of plants like raupo, ferns, harakeke and lancewood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Radio New Zealand News Headlines] Reference

There's a piece of lancewood in the store overhead which I keep on purpose; it's as tough as a bow -- they make carriage-shafts of it; you shall have a better rod than was ever fitted to a Joe Manton. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Amateur Poacher] Reference

The club was formed immediately, and our thirty members began to discuss the relative merits of lancewood, yew, and greenheart bows, and to survey yards and lawns for suitable spots for setting up targets for home practice.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Magic Egg and Other Stories] Reference

The slender lancewood rod swayed, the line swished through the air, and the fly dropped a few inches too high up the rapid among the stones -- I had meant it to fall farther across in the dark backwater at the foot of the fall.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of the Fields] Reference

This would be a fearful country for any one to be lost in, as there is nothing to guide them, and one cannot see more than three hundred yards around, the gum-trees are so thick, and the small belts of lancewood make it very deceptive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Explorations in Australia The Journals of John McDouall Stuart] Reference

The whole of the day's journey has been through a wooded country, in some places very thick, but in most open; it is composed of gums, hedge-trees, and some new trees -- the gums predominating; there were also a few patches of lancewood scrub.    From Wordnik.com.  [Explorations in Australia The Journals of John McDouall Stuart] Reference

He sent for lancewood to make the thills.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Volume 06: Poems from the Breakfast Table Series] Reference

Those lancewood-shafts!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Theocritus, translated into English Verse] Reference