pitch pine
any of several pines from which pitch or turpentine is obtained.
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How to use pitch pine in a sentence
The walls and ceilings of the rooms were sheeted with pitch pine and varnished.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland | Joseph TatlowThen came the pitch-pine staves of a rice-cask; then a bedstead, a broken chair, a wooden flowerpot!
The Boys of '61 | Charles Carleton Coffin.With these we returned to the camp; when, mixing the juice of the pitch-pine with the gum, he boiled it down in a small tripod.
In the Wilds of Florida | W.H.G. KingstonTwo large boats filled with birch bark and pitch pine were tied together and set on fire.
Four American Indians | Edson L. WhitneyThis roof was of pitch pine and oak, twenty-four inches thick, and covered with iron plates two inches thick.
The Naval History of the United States | Willis J. Abbot.
British Dictionary definitions for pitch pine
any of various coniferous trees of the genus Pinus, esp P. rigida, of North America, having red-brown bark and long lustrous light brown cones: valued as a source of turpentine and pitch
the wood of any of these trees
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