- a variation of rattan.
ratan
Americannoun
noun
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Tying up the legs of our prize with the ratan, we passed a piece of bamboo through them, and took our way by the path we had cut to the beach.
From In the Eastern Seas by William Henry Giles Kingston
Some of the magnificent volute shells were employed as baskets; while gigantic helmet shells, suspended by ratan handles, formed the vessels in which fresh water was brought from house to house.
From In the Eastern Seas by William Henry Giles Kingston
Arranged in this lane, at intervals, were slip nooses of ratan, which, rising above the structure, looked like skeleton arches.
From The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old by Florence Partello Stuart
Every box is properly weighed, papered, and bound with split ratan, the bill of the purchase has gone duly authenticated to the foreign factory, and the teas bid farewell to their native soil.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 04, February, 1858 by Various
The large mat sails depend from yards of bamboo; the rudders are large oars, one over each counter; the decks are roofed with bamboo, ratan and the inevitable nipa-palm leaves.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. by Various
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