wooden
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Then there are the boats or canoes themselves - generally old, weak, rickety wooden vessels that have often been used for years without upgrades or major repairs.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
Around 1607, settlers in the nearby Popham Colony constructed a wooden sailboat, dubbed Virginia—the first oceangoing boat built by English settlers in North America.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
Inside this claustrophobic wooden beast, Odysseus and his wild and bloodthirsty Greeks are crammed cheek-to-sandal so tightly that you can’t imagine how they’ll spring into action without first getting a massage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
She carried both pebbles and crystals in her mouth to a wooden platform, where she sorted them into separate groups.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026
The chairs were surprisingly comfortable, a far cry from the hard wooden ones back at the Academy.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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