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lancewood|ˈlɑːnswʊd, -æ-|
[f. lance n.1 + wood n.]
1. a. A tough elastic wood imported chiefly from the West Indies, used for carriage-shafts, fishing-rods, cabinet-work, etc. Also, a fishing-rod made of this wood. b. A tree yielding this wood; the best known are Duguetia quitarensis from Cuba and Guiana and Oxandra virgata from Jamaica.
‘The name in Australia is given to Backhousia myrtifolia and in New Zealand to Panax crassifolium’ (Morris Austral Eng. 1898).
1697W. Dampier Voy. I. 118 The Lancewood grows strait like our young Ashes; it is very hard, tough and heavy. 1756P. Browne Jamaica 177 The aculeated Lycium or Lance-wood. This shrub is common in most parts of the island. 1858O. W. Holmes Aut. Breakf. (1883) 221 He sent for lancewood to make the thills. 1879Cassell's Techn. Educ. IV. 160/2 The very best ash..is greatly inferior to lance-wood both in strength and elasticity. 1895Outing (U.S.) XXVI. 376/1 We put the little lancewoods together and started out.
2. = horoeka.
1910L. Cockayne N.Z. Plants viii. 120 The lancewood is neither Pseudopanax crassifolium nor P. ferox—it is P. chathamica. 1966Encycl. N.Z. II. 258/2 Lancewood, Horoeka (Pseudopanax crassifolium). Ibid. 259/1 P. ferox, a rather rare and local tree occurring from about latitude 35° southwards, has the same juvenile form as that of lancewood. |