Lightweight wood used in rafts

Usage examples of balsa.

Peruvian balsa wood for distribution to each of the mess halls in the syndicate on a pro rata basis.

We keep a supply of ready-cut balsa logs for expressly this purpose, and we are accustomed to lashing rafts together in an hour or two.

Both of them laughed as they were led to where a group of brahmacharyas sat amid a pile of freshly cut balsa wood logs, a pot of tar slowly melting over a cookfire, and vines and creepers they were weaving into ropes to use as lashings.

Repeated collisions with those huge, unyielding limbs on the way down would have demolished her miniature airplane like a balsa model.

As the ice gripping the base of the structure twisted to some unseen current, the two opposites sides came into view, revealing the broken maw of wooden framework reaching beneath the street level, crowded with enormous balsa logs and what appeared to be massive inflated bladders, three of them punctured and flaccid.

The site was strewn with a second material as well, a kind of dark balsa wood, very soft to the touch.

The door to the inbound bag room was a heavy steel slab, but it might as well have been balsa wood the way it whipsawed back and forth in the storm.

This close, the nine-millimeter slugs would blow clean through his chest, splintering bone like balsa wood.

At times the waves seemed like tsunamis, engulfing the ship in a wall of water, chairs and tables sliding from one side of the deck to the other as if they were made of balsa wood.

There were Portuguese ceramic clocks, Chinese Coptic balsa clocks, booming British grandfather clocks, imperial Ottoman clocks inlaid with mother-of-pearl and decorated with panels of Kutahya tiles, clocks in polychrome, walnut and stained glass - it made the head spin to even think about them.

In extreme cold, she had heard, engine steel turned brittle and could snap like balsa wood.

He looked back only once, to see the would-be stud come ploughing right through the rough fence, like so much balsa wood.

This morning as always his New Lebanon Sheriffs Department shirt was clean and stiff as a sheet of new balsa wood and his beige slacks had razor creases.

Someone who had to struggle and grunt a bit with heavy luggage was likely to earn bigger tips than a youngster who swung bags as if they contained nothing more than balsa wood.

De Bisschop and his companions had to abandon the balsa raft and take to an improvised raft of water drums and timber.