satin walnut

noun

1. the brown heartwood of the sweet gum tree, used for furniture, fittings, and panelling

Example Sentences

Fig. 276 (A) shows another method that answers well for soft woods such as pine, American whitewood and satin walnut.

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Wood sometimes commercially known as satin walnut and sometimes as star-leaved gum.

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A writer in a ladies' journal refers to the present fashion of "satin-walnut hair."

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In the toys described in the following chapters satin walnut lengths (a), (b), (c), and (d) are referred to simply as stripwood.

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For handwork in school, and for toy-making generally, satin walnut machine-planed can be had in the following useful sizes.

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