ratan
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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The ball is small, made of ratan, hollow, elastic, and light.
From In the Eastern Seas by Kingston, William Henry Giles
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 Kingston, William Henry Giles
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 Stuart, Florence Partello
The wide, low verandas are shaded on the sunny side by screens or blinds of ratan painted green, and from the ceiling dangle baskets, large baskets, filled with every imaginable variety of fern.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. by Various
He now secured his torch to the end of another piece of ratan, eight or ten yards long, with his chopping-knife fastened by a short rope.
From In the Eastern Seas by Kingston, William Henry Giles
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