| 单词 | curled maple |
| 释义 | > as lemmascurled maple c. Of wood: having a wavy or curly grain. Chiefly in curled maple: a wood in which the grain is much undulated or contorted, obtained from the broad-leaved, red, and suger maples. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > [adjective] > with specific kind of grain rough-grained1597 cross-grained1675 well-grown1717 close-bodied1726 close-grained1754 upright1776 curled1778 spalted1977 society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [noun] > maple > types of peacock's tail1664 sugar maple1731 curled maple1778 bird's eye maple1793 soft maple1806 Queensland maple1915 tiger maple1961 1778 in Pennsylvania Arch. (1907) 6th Ser. XII. 860 A Curl'd maple Teatable. 1813 H. Muhlenberg Catal. Plantarum Americæ Septentrionalis 84 (Alnus undulata or crispata) Waved alder or curled alder. 1832 D. J. Browne Sylva Americana 107 It sometimes happens that in very old trees, the grain instead of following a perpendicular direction, is undulated, and this variety is termed Curled Maple. 1851 C. Cist Sketches & Statistics Cincinnati 249 There are no finer ornamental woods in the world for furniture, than those of American growth, the black walnut, cherry and curled maple. 1855 Trans. Michigan Agric. Soc. 6 528 Much of this [maple] timber is curled and some bird's-eyed. 1911 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 664/2 The most constant use of curled maple is for the stocks of fowling-pieces and rifles. < as lemmas |
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