Wood light and soft, straight-grained, easy to work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies of Trees] Reference

Nevertheless, this dense, straight-grained wood has many important uses.    From Wordnik.com.  [5. Uses] Reference

Heartwood reddish; sapwood lighter color, straight-grained, compact structure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seasoning of Wood] Reference

The cambium of a straight-grained black walnut tree as seen in tangential section.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953] Reference

The tree for this purpose must be straight-grained, and from three to four feet in diameter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Daniel Boone, the Great Western Hunter and Pioneer] Reference

From another stick he split long wands off the straight-grained wood, fashioning them into arrows.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cosmic Engineer]

Curly-grained wood, the result of both stress and genetics, is preferred over straight-grained wood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 2] Reference

Fragments unearthed during the course of our excavations were invariably straight-grained, clean, and smooth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Material Culture of Pueblo Bonito] Reference

The wood is used for lumber and is straight-grained and medium textured with a moderately rough surface without luster.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 8] Reference

Pieces of straight-grained wood are wrought to a square section, after which the corners are planed away to form an octagonal section.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woodwork Joints How they are Set Out, How Made and Where Used.] Reference

He'd been nine years old the day he took the perfect, straight-grained branch as his price for felling the hickory for Taron, its owner.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord of the Isles] Reference

The wood is soft, durable, straight-grained, easily worked, very resinous, and has a satiny luster which makes it appreciated for interior work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seasoning of Wood] Reference

Wood heavy, hard, stiff, quite tough, not durable in contact with the soil, straight-grained, rough on the split surfaces and coarse in texture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seasoning of Wood] Reference

Annual rings clearly marked by large open pores, not durable in contact with the soil, is straight-grained, and the best material for oars, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seasoning of Wood] Reference

Late Bonitian beams, ceiling poles, and door lintels were of selected straight-grained timbers, felled and peeled while green, and the knots rubbed off.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Architecture of Pueblo Bonito :] Reference

Because the individual specimens were generally from straight-grained timbers, clean, smooth, and unscarred by transportation it was obvious the trees they.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Architecture of Pueblo Bonito :] Reference

The Hudson Baymen make passable pipe-stems by taking a straight-grained piece of willow or spruce without knots, and cutting through the outer layers of bark and wood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce] Reference

For cabinet-making and similar work straight-grained beechwood dowels are mostly used; these may be bought by the gross, in lengths of about 36 ins., and of any desired diameter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woodwork Joints How they are Set Out, How Made and Where Used.] Reference

It is sometimes used of wood which is straight-grained.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mornings in the College Chapel Short Addresses to Young Men on Personal Religion] Reference

It is cut from a round piece of straight-grained spruce ….    From Wordnik.com.  [Netvouz - new bookmarks] Reference

So they always want to get pine as smooth and straight-grained as possible.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forests of Maine Marco Paul's Adventures in Pursuit of Knowledge] Reference

Shepard specializes in straight-grained, lean-jawed characters such as test pilot.    From Wordnik.com.  [chicagotribune.com - News] Reference

Rough boards were made for the roof by splitting straight-grained logs about four feet long.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Crockett] Reference

In this manner it is possible to split a straight-grained piece of timber without the use of wedges.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shelters, Shacks and Shanties] Reference

Obtain a strip of white straight-grained hickory six feet long, two inches wide, and a quarter inch thick.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hunting with the Bow and Arrow] Reference

Very strong, and often straight-grained, white oak is used for making barrels, hardwood flooring and furniture.    From Wordnik.com.  [theleafchronicle.com - Local News] Reference

The slabs were made in this way: they took a clean straight-grained pine-tree and cut it into logs eight feet long.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taking Tales Instructive and Entertaining Reading] Reference

He came to a straight-grained, thick birch, eighteen inches in diameter, and he put up his tent fifty paces from it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Isobel : a Romance of the Northern Trail] Reference

The timber or the European species, when straight-grained, and clear, or free from knots, is, for ordinary purposes, better than that of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth as Modified by Human Action] Reference

They make them of clear straight-grained pine, which will split easily and true. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Forests of Maine Marco Paul's Adventures in Pursuit of Knowledge] Reference

Good, straight-grained shagbark.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oldtown Folks] Reference

It makes the wood straight-grained.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forests of Maine Marco Paul's Adventures in Pursuit of Knowledge] Reference

But straight-grained redwood can be terrific.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mandolin Cafe News] Reference

Wood heavy, hard, strong, usually straight-grained.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies of Trees] Reference

Wood heavy, hard, and strong, straight-grained, readily worked.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies of Trees] Reference

The terms "fine-grained," "coarse-grained," "straight-grained," and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seasoning of Wood] Reference

Wood light, soft, not strong, straight-grained, fairly easy to work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies of Trees] Reference