Lexicographical Neighbors of Piasaba
Literary usage of Piasaba
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Brazil, the River Plate, and the Falkland Islands: With the Cape Horn Route by William Hadfield (1854)
"piasaba is a species of palm from the bark of which is made nearly all the rope
used upon the Amazon. The appearance of the rope made from it is similar to ..."
2. A Military Dictionary, Comprising Terms, Scientific and Otherwise, Connected by George Elliot Voyle, G. de Saint-Clair-Stevenson (1876)
"piasaba Brushes—Gun brushes for field MLR guns. ... of an elm head with piasaba
grass glued into it, fixed upon a stave ; the head is cylindrical, ..."
3. Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon by William Lewis Herndon, Lardner Gibbon (1854)
"Hammocks, " de travessa," are those that are woven with close stripes across them.
t Sausages made from the flesh of the Peixe-boi. t piasaba is a palm, ..."
4. The Andean Land: (South America) by Chase Salmon Osborn (1909)
"Bahia sends out rubber, coffee, cacao, rosewood, sugar, tobacco, cotton, hides,
goat skins, tapioca, diamonds, carbons (bortz), and piasaba. ..."
5. A Manual of Indian Timbers: An Account of the Growth, Distribution, and Uses by James Sykes Gamble (1902)
"... and are not unlike the South American " piasaba." The stem base is hollowed
out and made inte ..."
6. The Three Americas Railway: An International and Intercontinental Enterprise by Hinton Rowan Helper (1881)
"... farina, cotton, rice, tobacco, piasaba, rubber, pita, copal, and many others
of corresponding value. There is no country in the world where industrious ..."
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