- a variation of rattan.
ratan
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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The roof is carefully thatched with the leaves of the nipa-palm and these are sewn into a thick mat with ratan.
From Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania by Jewett Castello Gilson
Mr. Charles Sandford, meanwhile, who was cultivating the sublime art of indifference, the distinguishing feature and the ideal of his tribe, only tapped his boot with his slender ratan, and then smoothed his silky moustaches.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 by Various
After hasty calculations he set them to work digging toward the head waters, following a line of ratan which he stretched to guide them.
From The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old by Florence Partello Stuart
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
We soon cut down some of the larger bamboos, with ratan to secure the cross pieces, and had an amply buoyant raft to carry one person out into the centre.
From In the Eastern Seas by William Henry Giles Kingston
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