yellow pine

IPA: jˈɛɫoʊpˈaɪn

noun

  • Any of various pine trees with wood of a yellow color.
  • A coniferous tree endemic to New Zealand, Halocarpus biformis.
  • (uncountable) The wood from any of these trees.

Examples of "yellow-pine" in Sentences

  • Parlor: yellow-pine floors, spotless; green paper blinds in the windows, that hang stirless the year round.
  • Big-Tree region, are very large sugar-pines, red firs, and yellow-pine trees, all of which make excellent lumber.
  • The whole structure is covered with yellow-pine weather boarding, which in some former age was covered with paint of a grayish brown color.
  • He began buying up land, amassing deeds to more than seventy thousand acres of virgin yellow-pine acreage, for a total outlay of only a little more than $400.
  • Care was taken to guard against fires igniting in the yellow-pine roof and the men did their best not to injure the shoe with the charges they set off beneath it.
  • These vats should be made of the best cypress or yellow-pine plank, two and a half inches thick, well fastened to the joints and studs with seven-inch spikes, and then caulked, to prevent their leaking.
  • For a space of at least half an acre around the huge iron buildings the ground, with sinister import, was kept clear of dwellings, but in all directions outside of the inclosure thousands of new yellow-pine shacks testified to the sudden demand for labor.
  • Neat chintz curtains covered the small windows, a number of brightly burnished brass candlesticks ornamented a plain wooden mantle over the broad fireplace, and a yellow-pine table, oiled and varnished, on which the 'tea things' were still standing, occupied the centre of the apartment.

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