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
“You know, balsa wood would be perfect for the seesaws—it’s really easy to cut. I think my dad might even have some.”
From "When You Reach Me" by Rebecca Stead
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
At length the Spaniards embarked in twenty balsas, and came in sight of the native squadron.
From The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America by William Henry Giles Kingston
The Spanish troops sent against them waded to some islets, but the Indians, hovering round them in their balsas, prevented them from advancing further.
From The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America by William Henry Giles Kingston
The simple people, coasting along in their light balsas or rafts, had seen the coming of what to them were then wondrous ships, cock-boats, though, as compared even to our collier brigs.
From The Golden Magnet by George Manville Fenn
