Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of certain trees of the genus Dahlbergia in the pea family, especially D. retusa of Central America and Mexico.
- noun The hard durable wood of such a tree, deep orange-red with black streaking or mottling, used for small specialty items such as knife handles.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A very beautiful and hard wood, obtained in the West India Islands. It is used in cabinetmaking, for the handles of tools, and for various fancy articles.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
oily tropical hardwood fromCentral America . - noun An old South American coin.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a valuable timber tree of tropical South America
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Call The seven-way Iverson Combination Whistle in cocobolo or African blackwood is as elegant as the pintail drake itself.
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Call The seven-way Iverson Combination Whistle in cocobolo or African blackwood is as elegant as the pintail drake itself.
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In my pocket, a Queen Cutlery Small Game Bird Knife with cocobolo scales and D2 blade.
Pocket Knives: I know we all have a bunch, but whats in your pocket right now? 2009
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Gerber's Gator S30V B&C is my current favorite hunting blade, but I pine for a Dozier, with his D2 blade and cocobolo scales.
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I love the look and feel of wood, especially cocobolo or ebony, but on a hard use knife it is hard to beat G-10 scales.
which do you like the best for knife handles, synthetic, bone, wood or antler? 2009
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Gerber's Gator S30V B&C is my current favorite hunting blade, but I pine for a Dozier, with his D2 blade and cocobolo scales.
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In my pocket, a Queen Cutlery Small Game Bird Knife with cocobolo scales and D2 blade.
Pocket Knives: I know we all have a bunch, but whats in your pocket right now? 2009
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I love the look and feel of wood, especially cocobolo or ebony, but on a hard use knife it is hard to beat G-10 scales.
which do you like the best for knife handles, synthetic, bone, wood or antler? 2009
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The Mark III Hunter has the same guts as the original but comes in stainless steel with a heavy, fluted 6 7/8-inch barrel, adjustable sights and a scope-mount adapter, a 10-round magazine, and half-checkered cocobolo grips.
David E. 2007
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Great Plains 'Plainsman Longbow, with reflex-deflex design, cocobolo risers, and red cedar and elm limbs, is efficient and beautiful.
vendingmachine commented on the word cocobolo
"Woods with an oily content, such as cocobolo, can achieve better gluing strength by wiping the surface of both pieces being glued with acetone first. After the acetone has dried, the piece is glued as normal."
February 16, 2016