What is "ashwood"

Usage examples of "ashwood".

Small boys came running to roadsides to watch the lines of riders all ajingle on their tall chargers, the pennons fluttering at the sparkling steel tips of the long, polished lances of ashwood, sunbeams flashing from plumed helmets, cuirasses and hilts of sabers and dirks.

Not even their scouts knew the meaning of the symbol, so Ashwood could not have told her.

Pulling out the envelope, he shuffled through the aging photographs of the Ashwood infants and found a match.

It moved at an ambling walk, and the only man erect in his saddle was the pennon bearer, and he was kept alert only by the occasional gust of wind from off the distant mountains that unexpectedly bellied out the heavy, silken banner and made fair to tear the ashwood shaft from his grasp.

The polished ashwood bow seemed to reply with a faint, humming resonance.

Then she stood straight, unslinging her ashwood bow from her shoulder.

Now she recalled the smooth ashwood staff, plain and unadorned, that had nonetheless become her most treasured possession.

She handled the smooth ashwood staff reverently, grateful for the potent magic it contained.

Tough ashwood, the shaft of the ax slid down the metal and the force of the blow turned the Zarthani half around.

It snapped downward, slashing through the tough ashwood just behind the iron wire that bound the shaft for a foot behind the head.

With a convulsive gesture he slammed his spear into the ground and left it quivering upright like a seven-foot ashwood exclamation mark.

It was six feet of smooth ashwood, with another foot of steel on top, ground down from a leaf spring to a knife shape that tapered to a vicious point along two razor edges, and he politely declined Edain's offer to carry it for him.