balsa
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"All you can see of Chewie's feet are his toes. My dad carved them out of balsa wood as he is an engineer too," he said.
From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2024
Mindy, who takes to a balsa Hobie as easily as Carol once did, has bigger plans.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2023
The roomy interior was cooled by dry ice, with a single headlamp and a crush zone of balsa wood installed in front.
From Slate ● Aug. 2, 2022
He laid out the physics hurdles of such an epic voyage and even crafted a prototype spacecraft from poster board, balsa wood, and Elmer’s glue.
From Science Magazine ● Jul. 27, 2022
Whatever Comrade Pillai stored in his curtained cupboard, it wasn’t broken balsa airplanes.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
They were taking many of the same chances as their theoretical primitives: the raft was modeled after the balsas of the ancient Peruvians.
From Time Magazine Archive
According to Peruvian tradition, the Inca Tupac Yupanqui sailed a large fleet of balsas into the Pacific, about 1470 A.D.
From Time Magazine Archive
These skin boats, if boats they are, are called balsas.
From Taking Tales Instructive and Entertaining Reading by William Henry Giles Kingston
On the other hand, large balsas constructed for use in crossing the rough waters of the deeper portions of the lake are capable of carrying a dozen people and their luggage.
From Inca Land Explorations in the Highlands of Peru by Hiram Bingham
The Indians, however, going in and out among the lanes and rushes, baffled their oppressors, cutting off several Spanish balsas.
From The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America by William Henry Giles Kingston
