Climbing palm of Sri Lanka and southern India remarkable for the great length of the stems which are used for malacca canes.
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In some places the original trunk had entirely disappeared, leaving only the ratan.
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The ball is small, made of ratan, hollow, elastic, and light.
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He grasp'd his ratan firmly, and descended from his seat.
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Bamboo and ratan, whole or split, afford the materials for all these baskets and cages.
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Round the waist they wore coils of ratan, stained red, to which their petticoats were attached.
The stem of various climbing palms of the genus Calamus and related genera used to make wickerwork and furniture and canes.
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They used the whip and the rattan stick; and twisted his nose.
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Between the rough supports of the high-pitched roof hung torn rattan screens.
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There's the rattan in the corner: I'll bring it to you myself.
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The porch was long and narrow, furnished with rattan chairs and sofas.
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The string is a strip of rattan three-eighths of an inch wide.
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The young man sat in the rattan chair until dawn, quietly breathing.
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One bore a stout rattan, the other several pieces of strong rope.
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He was seated in a rattan chair, staring out across the lawn.
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If I know anything of the rattan, he won't do it again.
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She sat in one of the rattan chairs and sipped her coffee.
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He also wore a massive rattan hat that looked like a lampshade.
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In drying, the rattan becomes very tight and the twigs hard and stiff.
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The rattan suggests that until it rots the wrong will not be forgotten.
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The Master has not taken his rattan out since the vacation.
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Each rattan ring is sheathed in small rings of beaten brass.
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The bowstring is nearly always a strip of rattan about 3 millimeters broad.
