How To Use Bamboo In A Sentence
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The boat races during the Dragon Boat Festival are traditional customs to attempts to rescue the patriotic poet Chu Yuan. Chu Yuan drowned on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month in 277 B.C. Chinese citizens now throw bamboo leaves filled with cooked rice into the water. Therefore the fish could eat the rice rather than the hero poet. This later on turned into the custom of eating tzungtzu and rice dumplings.
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The boat races during the Dragon Boat Festival are traditional customs to attempts to rescue the patriotic poet Chu Yuan. Chu Yuan drowned on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month in 277 B.C. Chinese citizens now throw bamboo leaves filled with cooked rice into the water. Therefore the fish could eat the rice rather than the hero poet. This later on turned into the custom of eating tzungtzu and rice dumplings.
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This multiplication of coverage is cunningly designed to bamboozle the party media minders who sit in party headquarters with stop watches timing their contributions to ensure balance.
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The tree's coppicing habit, the way one specimen can have dozens of trunks, means that in places the pines look like a wall of bamboo, rather than relatives of the giant Araucariaceae that line the foreshores of Sydney beaches.
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It introduces, maintains, characterizes, and evaluates germplasm collections of banana, plantain, sapodilla, mamey sapote, cacao, Garcinia, Annona, and bamboo.
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Compare and contrast with The Daily Telegraph leader, headed: "We won't be fooled out of our referendum" – "bamboozled" in the print edition.
Archive 2007-06-01
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Woodcarvings, bamboo mats, wooden partitions, paintings, wall hangings, brassware, metal icons and pooja articles are also on display, besides ready-to-eat products.
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The dominant conifers are Abies faxoniana, Picea asperata, P. wilsoni and purple-coned spruce P. purpurea (which is also being planted) with a sub-canopy of Betula albo-sinensisB. utilis, low Acer spp. and fountain bamboo Fargesia/Sinarundinaria nitida which suffered a major die-off after flowering in the 1970s and early 1980s, Fargesia denudata and F. chinensis.
Jiuzhaigou Valley Scenic and Historic Interest Area, China
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A low fence of split bamboo marked off an inside area the width of a boxing ring and twice as long.
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Another attempt by Republican Obstructionists to "bamboozle" the American taxpayers.
Obama touts financial reform, says GOP stance 'deceptive'
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The natives congregated in front of the main gate, or would peer over the walls, standing on makeshift bamboo stilts.
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A container with fresh creek water made out of a sealed off and hollowed bamboo stick hung from his leather belt.
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Clusters of tall, willowy bamboos rose out of ten pale-pink marble planters and almost touched the high triple-domed ceiling.
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The ogoh-ogoh, escorted by groups of people carrying bamboo torches and a loud gamelan ensemble, are paraded on the night before Nyepi.
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Also there were cornfields, grapevines, lemon trees, stands of bamboo, and forests of cactus.
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Sometimes, the placing and spacing requires a bit of thought, so I poke in small bamboo canes where I want plants to go.
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It has grown more than two metres high this year despite being in a relatively small container and has covered a decent area of wall with its ferny foliage with a few stems finding their way into the bamboo growing nearby.
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Dance music can be played by musicians walking or dancing in a procession, and it features long drums, gongs, cymbals, and bamboo flutes.
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Bamboo, Rattan , Fern , Seagrass, Banana Leaf Bamboo and Rattan Products.
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The household tax system of collecting articles by the nine grades families was reflected in the Wu Bamboo Slips excavated in Zhoumalou, Changsha.
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Every ounce saved was important and they didn't even take blankets or greatcoats and they slept as best they could in rough bamboo shelters with only a groundsheet to keep out the mountain cold.
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These were substantially built of timber and talipots, thatched with cadjans and bamboo leaves, and festooned and decorated as the Singhalese only can decorate - leaves, flowers and fruit being entwined together with so much delicacy and airy tastefulness as to impart an almost fairy-like form to the pavilion.
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The bamboo reacted benignly, growing replacements in a most unthreatening manner and generally seeming to know its place.
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In the Eklakhi Tomb we see for the first time an Islamic curved roof inspired from the bamboo version, and the slight slope on the roof is a departure from traditional cubical construction and served to throw off rainwater.
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Generally, the tropical bamboos tend to be clumpers and the temperate bamboos tend to be runners.
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We were talking about how brown the bamboos were most of the year, and how they greened up after a little rain.
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Bulkheads were finished in a woven bamboo-striped motif contrasting with the square-shaped windows curtained in a fish/pineapple pattern.
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He lived with the same aesthetic as that of his work – fine linen, worn leather, superb works of art and a few cartoons, buddleia and bamboo in the overgrown garden and the residue of paint carried down from the studio.
Lucian Freud obituary
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And I train them tall up bamboo poles to keep their heads in the sun in summer and out of the frost in winter.
Times, Sunday Times
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Local craftspeople can easily prefabricate the bamboo structures.
79. Community-run preschool centres in low-income areas
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The dim sum was contained in small bamboo food steamers, tiny but delightful, so that you could order varied dishes.
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Many opponents were so bamboozled they simply resort to fouling him.
The Sun
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Add a small water plant in a bonsai dish, rocks, a submersible pump, and a bamboo spout.
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The treadle pump is easy to build from bamboo or other wood and 2 metal cylinders with pistons.
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Single bamboo canes are also used as rhythm sticks in many parts of the world, including Polynesia and the Amazon Basin.
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There, she reads the newspaper, which hangs suspended from a rack by a bamboo rod.
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Across the sandy track that was the main village street, exuberant bunting flew between bamboo poles.
Indian Balm - Travels in the Southern Subcontinent
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Hair ornaments are not generally worn, but nearly every Negrito, male and female, especially in southern Zambales and Bataan, possesses one or more of the so-called combs of bamboo.
Negritos of Zambales
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We journeyed past rows of rickety buildings with bamboo scaffolding and lines of washing before arriving in the modern part of the city.
For Love or Money
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Natural fibres such as asbestos, sisal, hemp, kenaf, coir, bamboo, and begasse are natural products, which, with no or very little processing, can be used in building materials.
4. Innovative technologies related to recycling of materials
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The melon vine is suitable the bamboo pole to grow the frog which at the same time under the tree has only jumps to unfold a harmonious natural picture scroll!
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Bamboo and buntal hats bring the most money to the islands, although many inexpensive buri hats are exported.
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Sections of bamboo or plastic buckets are used to carry water from nearby streams for cooking and washing.
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They have no money and spend every day carrying rice up the mountain on bamboo sticks.
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The literature of ancient Egypt was written on rolls of papyrus, that of ancient Mesopotamia on clay tablets, that of ancient China on strips of bamboo held together with string, and so forth.
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He has seven 20-meter-high sugar palm trees that he climbs every morning to take the sap of the sugar palm trees and put it in bamboo containers called bung bung.
The Jakarta Post Breaking News
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It is well known that bamboo shoots are a panda's staple diet.
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Dendrobium (bamboo) orchids often do better if you cut the old flowered stems down to the base.
The Sun
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Tie short pieces of old bamboo canes together to make a nest for ladybirds and place them next to the plants that are regularly attacked by aphids, such as roses.
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Bamboos and other canes often have edible seeds.
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Third stage carbonization: the temperature is in the range of 260℃ to 450℃, and the bamboo is decomposed into liquid and gas products.
Fab Fabrics: Greenyarn’s Bamboo Ecofabric
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First they cut a little well into bark and fill it with water carried in hollow bamboo.
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Green tea, jasmine tea and chai may soothe the body, but try Chinese bamboo wind chimes for that friend who needs some peace of mind.
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I like Obama because he uses words like "hoodwink" and "bamboozle" in political speeches.
Obama On Veep Talk: Clintons Are Trying To "Hoodwink" You
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Just two steps above the main deck, the upper sitting area is simply and elegantly defined by an open railing, a small torii, and a bamboo fountain.
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With the large ones they catch bonnetos and albicores, by putting them to a bamboo rod, twelve or fourteen feet long, with a line of the same length, which rests in a notch of a piece of wood, fixed in the stern of the canoe for that purpose, and is dragged on the surface of the sea, as she rows along, without any other bait than a tuft of flaxy stuff near the point.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 15 Forming A Complete History Of The Origin And Progress Of Navigation, Discovery, And Commerce, By Sea And Land, From The Earliest Ages To The Present Time
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Flags flutter from bamboo poles, there are forests of flags.
Times, Sunday Times
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Let's see if there's any way to get the media and various other members of the capital's elect to avoid another round of self-administered bamboozlement.
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Bamboo leather have carbide, ecru and zebras three kinds of color, flat crush, lateral pressure two lines can choose.
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Taking a long drag on his bamboo pipe, Soo-Il would think about the request for a bit.
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We must all now be open to the possibility that we have beenblatantly bamboozled on 9/11 andcan no longerbe afraid of the truth.
ARE AMERICANS AFRAID OF 9/11 TRUTH ?
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Habitats in tropical and subtropical mountain forest, coniferous forest, forest edge grass, bamboo forest or savanna.
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Since the neighbor's property is a bit overgrown with low bamboo it was a quite a tussle doing all that and then wrestling the tree lengths back onto my property.
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The defenders were bamboozled, the crowd amazed.
The Sun
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He was told by villagers that approximately 10 minutes after the airman had landed, militiamen from the village found him hiding in a bamboo thicket and captured him.
Busch, Jon T.
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At both locations, you can see various types of bamboos, from those as thin as an index finger to stout trunks that are thicker than an arm.
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Green tea, jasmine tea and chai may soothe the body, but try Chinese bamboo wind chimes for that friend who needs some peace of mind.
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These bamboo beauties are “four inches in diameter and set in Baskerville semibold.”
Blog – syllable studio
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Tents that house up to 10 people at a time are made of plastic tarps, metal sheeting, or bamboo - they provide shelter to refugees for months, or sometimes even years.
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Jamaica's lush interior is stunning, and the best way to see it is on a lazy river ride, being punted on your own personal bamboo raft.
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I always use a few bamboo canes to mark the planting position so I don't damage the shallow - planted bulbs.
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I'm especially pleased that he's been such a strong and cogent voice on Social Security since we are sure to face a new tide of bamboozlement in the week ahead.
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They won't last as long as bamboo but they will be much less pale and conspicuous.
Times, Sunday Times
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Thieves are also using bamboo canes with magnets on the end to fish keys through letter boxes.
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He slept excessively and lost his appetite, even refusing his favourite dish of fresh bamboo.
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Her neighbour used a piece of bamboo to rouse him from sleep and eventually he awoke.
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Support the cane of your selected rose by staking it with a bamboo stake and some rose or twist ties.
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The boom in new types of martial arts contrasts with a decline in the popularity of their traditional counterparts, such as judo and kendo, or fighting with bamboo swords.
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To facilitate animal traction, migrants cut down big trees, cleared bamboo bushes, and uprooted stumps.
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Half the cast dangle above the stage on ropes or perch precariously on a bamboo scaffold that forms the skeleton of the set.
Times, Sunday Times
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The bamboo shoots in spring crop out after rain.
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Harry talks about the excise men being bamboozled by coffins being carried up the hill and across the moors containing, of course, smuggled booty rather than bodies.
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Through painstaking efforts, he put together a bicycle made of bamboo, abundantly available in his state.
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An intricate support structure of stainless-steel wires, bamboo poles and fishing nets provides anchorage for the fabric cladding.
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This was later elongated to become rectangular in plan, with roofing of bamboo as well, only this time curved in the shape of a barrel.
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Soon evening comes and the bamboo grove is silent.
Fir-Flower Tablets: Poems Translated From the Chinese
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Outside the ancient settlement, with its alleyways and arches reinforced with bamboo canes, is the early 13 th-century romanesque church of St Esteve.
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Hypha cell is long type like bamboo segment .
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The elegant bamboo reeds release clean, invigorating pamplemousse, jasmine, tamarind and sandalwood oils, for a warm, natural scent.
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She bit down on her garlic, which cracked coldly, like bamboo being sliced by a knife.
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They put up temporary housing made out of mud, out of bamboo, out of thatch, out of tarpaulin, out of corrugated steel.
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The defenders were bamboozled, the crowd amazed.
The Sun
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The roof of a grass hut was bambooed.
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Walking along the path, we appreciated the flourishing bamboo that surrounded the multitudes of deep green water pools stocked with small fish.
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A stick for prying clams from the reef, for example, counted as one techno-unit, whereas a bamboo crab trap with a baited lever counted as 16, because it comprised 16 working parts, each a technology in its own right.
Why Some Islanders Build Better Crab Traps
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Method :1. Split and peel the rush shoots and cut them into sections of 3cm. long. Slice the dried mushrooms, bamboo shoots. Then scald them in boiling water and ladle out.
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This guy’s rods sold for what you could call an entry-level price for bamboo and they were surprisingly good, but he said he had no aspirations about turning pro.
Fool’s Paradise
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To understand ground rents and land prices is to understand cities; not to understand is to remain mired forever in confusion and fallacy, to be gulled and misled and bamboozled, which is, indeed and alas, the common lot of mankind.
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The undulating streams, swaying bamboos, sylvan surroundings and trekking tracts make Ganeshgudi and Dandeli unique holiday destinations.
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Using a bamboo whisk, thick tea is prepared by mixing powdered green tea with just enough water to produce the proper consistency.
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The defenders were bamboozled, the crowd amazed.
The Sun
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The Green Room's bouquet was in a vermeil bamboo-motif container acquired by Jackie Kennedy.
The White House's new florist in chief is boldly creating blooms with a view
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Documents rarely set out to trick historians, but they can bamboozle the unwary at every turn.
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If you heft the egg afterward it's as light as feather, and not very filling when you're hungry; but a basketful of them would make quite a show and would bamboozle the unwary.
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Over 160 years in the making, Trebah now contains glades of subtropical ferns, towering bamboo and magnificent specimen trees, as well as rhododendrons and magnolias in spring.
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Melt the remaining butter in a wide-bottomed pan, add the bamboo shoots, mangetout and seasoning.
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There are other uses for bamboo: paneling, cabinetry, veneers, stairs.
Houston Chronicle
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Bamboo forests grow very fast and with a very little burden on environment because the quantity of CO2 that they can absorb is very high.
Global Voices in English » Japan: A brief review of the eco-technologies
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The tools are made by the tribals themselves from finely sharpened bamboo.
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A fixing had come adrift, freeing about seven or eight feet of the bamboo screening.
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I tried peeking down through a gap between the bamboo slats.
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The return to the ship involves a _bloto_ across the bay, with many misgivings as to the seaworthy capacities of the clumsy craft, but four bamboo safety-poles, fastened by forked sticks to the sides of the hollowed log, suffice to steady it enough to avoid capsizal.
Through the Malay Archipelago
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As far as the Ontario farmers are concerned, they will not be "bamboozled" by any of these wild promises made by the socialistic party.
Canadian Agriculture in the War Effort
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Their instruments include long wooden drums, kettlegongs, knobbed gongs, cymbals, bamboo beaters, flutes, and buffalo horns.
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Other house plants to enjoy growing this way include wandering Jew, hoya, English ivy, trailing philodendron, Hawaiian ti, and, of course, lucky bamboo.
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Some find employment in weaving neat baskets from split bamboos, and others collect the fibre of the buaze, which grows abundantly on the hills, and make it into fish-nets.
A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries
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They fed me on boiled pumpkin, wild rice, little mud fish and river prawns cooked in hollow bamboo tubes.
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In deep water the captain steered by means of a prodigious rudder; in the shallows he managed with a long, stout bamboo pole.
With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Borders, and of a Journey into the Far Interior
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Water will trickle audibly here and there, and there'll be the gentle swish of bamboo and tall grasses.
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They lived in a simple house with bamboo walls and a roof made of coconut leaves.
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The kalintang resembles the sticcado and the harmonica; the more common ones having the cross-pieces, which are struck with two little hammers, of split bamboo, and the more perfect of a certain composition of metal which is very sonorous.
The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants
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Fancy it was a picture of black bamboo, which I saw verify my illusion.
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She sounded like she was repeating something that had been dunned into her again and again, and seemed bamboozled over that bit of pink stone!
The Pink Dress
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Bamboos, ferns, bromeliads, epiphytes and orchids will all thrive in this microclimate.
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While not entirely practical for our enclosed winter months, the subtle clonks of natural bamboo can be a calming force come spring.
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Bulldozing old-growth trees will make way for money-making species such as eucalyptus, teak and bamboo.
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Half the cast dangle above the stage on ropes or perch precariously on a bamboo scaffold that forms the skeleton of the set.
Times, Sunday Times
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The famous Dr. Hauschka sets forth this doctrine to explain his interest in bamboo as he found its qualities effective against degenerative processes in the cartilages and conjunctive tissue.
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If anyone has any wisdom pertaining to the successful sewing with and dying of bamboo dobby fabric, please leave a comment.
Polka Dot Cottage » (Mis)adventures in tub-dying » Print
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Often the entire base of the bamboo clump is set on fire to facilitate the easy removal of dead bamboo.
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Thirteen years later, in 1989, she had a rainproof house, her two children were in school and she had diverse income streams, both constant and seasonal - bamboo weaving, livestock, vegetable gardening.
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The tribeswoman lives in a bamboo hut deep in a northern Thailand jungle.
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I designed these small shops to look like blue and white striped tents supported by bamboo poles at the corners.
The Education of a Gardener
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In Fujian, workers are carving roads into red clay hills, scaling bamboo scaffolding, hauling piles of stone.
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The characteristic joints that identify the bamboo plant are clearly visible and give the floor a unique appearance and natural tone, hardened by topcoats of acrylic polyurethane finish.
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The bow was a piece of bent bamboo with shredded abaka for the bow-strings.
An Ohio Woman in the Philippines Giving personal experiences and descriptions including incidents of Honolulu, ports in Japan and China
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But players will still be able to chase the Bamboo Buck after the deadline passes.
The Sun
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The chefs also cooked up crispy fish, stuffed bamboo fungus, stir-fried textured fish and a yummy-looking stir fried squid with vegetables.
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The duck has qualities - nay, powers - that bamboozle the hapless magician and his assistant.
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I’d choose a wool/bamboo and maybe nylon blend – trekking pro natura is a little different than the rest of the bamboo pack (made with bamboo fibers rather than bamboo pulp) and I think it is a very lovely yarn.
Knitting with bamboo sock yarn? « Compulsive Knitter
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The artifacts made of wood, bamboo and cane are claimed to be peculiar to the North Eastern States.
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Bamboo produces an annual crop of cane.
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Even the most diehard personal finance addict is likely to be bamboozled by this one.
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Upon reaching the unimaginably elegant and tranquil village, our visual senses were overwhelmed by verdant and lush hills, slender young bamboos, stout-aged pines, and two joyous streams.
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Hiking up the mountain, you pass through forest, bamboo and moorland, before being rewarded at the peak with superb views.
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Dr. Hans brought up the fact that although the alphorns were still made in Switzerland from traditional pinewood, the strapping around the length of the horn was these days made from Thai bamboo.
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Fan-shaped drum for Pushan, formwork, the skin surface with a diameter of a Chiban, put less handle the chain, ring up the end of Sui colorful silk, Ku keys made from bamboo.
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To encourage wildlife, they planted cotoneaster to provide winter fruit for birds, while the pond, edged with bamboos, sedges, grasses, astilbes, hostas and candelabra primulas, attracts both insects and birds.
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She will be staying with the Karen people in their stilted houses in the bamboo and teak jungle where there is no electricity.
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They are examining the effect of panda foraging on bamboo.
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A whole row of bamboo plants, worth £30 each, is already dead and so are hundreds of standard roses.
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At seventy-five feet Sea Dragon had been larger than Hsu Fu and a much more substantial vessel than a flimsy bamboo raft.
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We finished by floating gently on a bamboo raft down river.
The Sun
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It is well known that bamboo shoots are a panda's staple diet.
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We were shown to a large glass dining table and a bamboo screen was placed around us to shield us.
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Jamaica's lush interior is stunning, and the best way to see it is on a lazy river ride, being punted on your own personal bamboo raft.
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In the midst of the lush, steaming jungle of Bali, Green School has two dozen buildings made of giant bamboo poles.
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One of the best known is puto bumbong, made of the violet rice called pirurutong, steamed in a bamboo tube and eaten with grated coconut and brown sugar.
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The Lao Theung farm dry rice, cotton, and tobacco, employing only wooden tools and bamboo implements; settle near mountain streams in huts with dirt floors; and believe that the human body is host to somewhere between 30 and 130 spirits (to what degree obesity or anorexia determines the size of the spirit habitancy is unclear).
Villa Incognito
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The natural colour of bamboo can deepen to a dark caramel tone.
Times, Sunday Times
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I had been out in the wayback, enjoying the growth of this year's bamboo shoots and trying to unkink my mind from the work week, and as I returned to the house, I spotted the turtle below, heading in the opposite direction.
Another Turtle Comes Calling
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A female giant panda ate bamboo during her debut appearance at Ueno zoological park in Tokyo on April 1, the park's first day of reopening since the March 11 disaster.
One Month After the Quake
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West 2: bamboo apartment, 12M2. 1 double bed, TV, toilet. exterior balcony has hammock, A/C and solar energy shower. Room rate: RMB200/night.
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He bamboozled me into exchanging the foreign currency.
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KALISH: Buckley used a computer-controlled milling machine known as a shopbot to make precise cuts in a piece of bamboo plywood, but he didn't get the results he wanted.
A Space For DIY People To Do Their Business
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While bamboo stalks and roots make up about 95 percent of its diet, the giant panda also feeds on gentians, irises, crocuses, fish, and occasionally small rodents.
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Emei's flora is renowned; sub-tropical ferns and strands of bamboo huddle amidst plane and fir trees.
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A whole new world of exotic design possibilities abound with zen-like bamboo, luxurious lacewood, distinctive makore, or safari zebrawood to name a few.
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Mine has a chunky wooden table sliced from a tree and handmade muslin curtains on bamboo rails.
Times, Sunday Times
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Bamboo flutes add a ghostly, subtle melodic backbone to the more intricate interplay on the keyed instruments.
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OEcotextiles uses a variety of fibers, including linen from Italy, organic cotton from Peru, bamboo from China, hemp from Romania, and abaca from Ecuador, all grown without pesticides or chemical fertilizers.
Jan Sundberg Whitsitt: Is Your Newly Decorated House, Hotel Room Or Cruise Ship Cabin Making You Sick?
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The strong smoky flavour comes from laying the tea leaves on bamboo trays above burning pinewood.
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Bamboo is the panda's staple diet.
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The floor is made of split bamboo strongly woven, resting on timber uprights.
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This aerophone with arch-formed blowing hole is made from a hornless bamboo tube of 50-60 cm long.
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In the most wholesome sense it pongs eco, with spartan bamboo cabanas and dormitories equipped with independent renewable energy supplies, grey water recycling systems, pit-toilets that guests compost, and service roped in rubber time.
Richard Bangs: Nic' of Time
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Past the gilded harp and the bamboo chairs awaiting arrangement, we march upstairs to the East Room, where the patina of history these are the famous portraits of George and Martha Washington, these are the iconic nineteenth-century chandeliers has been freshened for the evening with flowers for the tables and arrangements of cacti for the mantles, with the Clinton china and vermeil flatware and tiny gilded eagle place card holders sans cards.
Mayhill Fowler: A Citizen Journalist Covers an Obama State Dinner [PHOTOS]
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Loop the chicken wire in a large circle around the plant and secure with bamboo canes pushed into the ground.
Times, Sunday Times
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Furnitures such as Rattan, Bamboo, Wicker, Decorative Candles and Candle Holders Furniture, Furniture Fittings and Fixtures.
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Bamboo produces an annual crop of cane.
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An eye catching assistant often relieves the magician from the drudgery of bamboozlement.
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The panda eats bamboo. Chomp , chomp , chew,(sentence dictionary) yum my bamboo.
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This fishing rod is made of bamboo.
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This is connected to a large bamboo teepee with pole beans, gourds and other climbing plants covering it.
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In some spots, villagers were building cinder-block houses, a sturdy if ugly improvement over their flimsy bamboo shacks.
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In his hands, the bansuri bamboo flute becomes an instrument of tremendous power, virtuosity and versatility.
World Music Central
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The entrance was a spectacular doline 150m across and 100m deep where a devious route down lunged from tree to tree with only the occasional bamboo ladder or dodgy hand line for assistance.
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The sacred bamboo rod is bathed in holy water from a golden vessel and wreathed in garlands of fragrant flowers.
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A hard dirt path leads into the village past a cluster of small bamboo huts.
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Men armed with sharpened bamboo sticks led the charge.
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We finished by floating gently on a bamboo raft down river.
The Sun
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Another success, a little sunlight let in through the bamboo curtain.
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The gardens were a thicket of self-seeded ash and sycamore and bamboo.
Times, Sunday Times
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One thinks of the acanthus, or bamboo, or (in Tibet), the tiger skin.
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It's too quaint to be seen as overly nasty - the Clintons are trying to "bamboozle" you, not you're being lied to.
Obama On Veep Talk: Clintons Are Trying To "Hoodwink" You
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Last week we showed you my interview with bamboo furniture designer Jair Straschnow, this week it's the turn of the KeepCup
TreeHugger
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A fisherman passed with a string of fish on a bamboo pole across his shoulders.
Times, Sunday Times
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We finished by floating gently on a bamboo raft down river.
The Sun
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He staked his tomato vines with bamboo.
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Make a wigwam or bamboo tunnel and sow peas or beans.
