ratan
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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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
"Speak, sir!" exclaimed Lugare, with a loud strike of his ratan on the desk.
From Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman
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
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 William Henry Giles Kingston
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
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