stringy-bark
Britishnoun
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For the gullies are deep, and the uplands are steep, And mud will of purls be the token, And the tough stringy-bark, that invites us to lark, With impunity may not be broken.
From Poems by Adam Lindsay Gordon by Clarke, Marcus Andrew Hislop
He made a spring for the back of the hut and through it, taking down a large new sheet of stringy-bark in his flight.
From While the Billy Boils by Lawson, Henry
The stringy-bark tree, and Tristania, were growing on the sandy soil, and the latter near watercourses.
From Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 by Leichhardt, Ludwig
The Livistona palm and Cochlospermum gossypium grew on the ridges; the tea-tree, the stringy-bark, the leguminous Ironbark and Eugenia were useful timber.
From Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 by Leichhardt, Ludwig
He had rigged a good shelter over Jess with the help of a couple of sheets of stringy-bark and a few stakes.
From Finn The Wolfhound by Buxton, Robert Hugh
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