balsa
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Mindy, who takes to a balsa Hobie as easily as Carol once did, has bigger plans.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2023
“Going through my brain were suitable expletives. I hit the brakes, by which time it was too late, it was like balsa wood flying absolutely everywhere.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 25, 2022
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
On the river, the canoes were tied together in pairs to form a balsa, or raft.
From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple
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 Kingston, William Henry Giles
The rivers are crossed on large flat-bottomed boats called balsas.
From Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America by Ray, G. Whitfield
Their boats or balsas were looked upon as ingenious contrivances.
From Notable Voyagers From Columbus to Nordenskiold by Kingston, William Henry Giles
