Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One of a class of Australasian gum-trees (Eucalyptus) distinguished by a tenacious fibrous bark.
  • noun In Australia, a post and rail fence.

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Examples

  • The timber is the same as yesterday in some places; the stringy-bark is much larger.

    The Journals of John McDouall Stuart 2007

  • The timber is chiefly composed of stringy-bark, gum, myall, casurina, pine, and many other descriptions of large timber, all of which will be most useful to new colonists.

    The Journals of John McDouall Stuart 2007

  • They lie between slightly elevated country of light-brown soil, having stringy-bark and gums, with occasionally a thin scrub abounding in grass.

    The Journals of John McDouall Stuart 2007

  • The stony rises are covered with stringy-bark, gum, and other trees, but not so tall and thick as on the table land and close to it, except in the creek, where it is very large; the melaleuca is also large.

    The Journals of John McDouall Stuart 2007

  • Crossed three stony rises, and got upon a white sandy rise, with large stringy-bark trees growing upon it; and there seemingly being a creek at the foot of it, from the number of green gums and palm-trees, I went down to it, and found it to be springy ground, now quite dry, although the grass was quite green.

    The Journals of John McDouall Stuart 2007

  • The timber on the rises between the creeks is stringy-bark, small gums, and in places a nasty scrub, very sharp, which tore a number of our saddle-bags: it is a very good thing the patches of it are not broad.

    The Journals of John McDouall Stuart 2007

  • Continued on my course through granite and quartz country, splendidly grassed, and timbered with stringy-bark and gums, pines, palms, nut-trees, and a wattle bush, which in some places was rather thick, but not at all difficult to get through.

    The Journals of John McDouall Stuart 2007

  • The grass in, and on the banks of, this creek is six feet high; to the westward there are long reaches of water, and the creek very thickly timbered with melaleuca, gum, stringy-bark, and palms.

    The Journals of John McDouall Stuart 2007

  • The timber is stringy-bark, some splendid trees; amongst them gums and a number of pines, also very fine.

    The Journals of John McDouall Stuart 2007

  • Timber, stringy-bark, iron-bark, gum, etc., with bamboo fifty to sixty feet high on the banks of the river, is abundant, and at convenient distances.

    The Journals of John McDouall Stuart 2007

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