noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
cane
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Ann's boyfriend hits Tommy around the head with a bamboo cane spiked with nails.
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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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Firm soil around roots and stake standard-trained plants using a bamboo cane .
hut
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Carey set to work clearing the jungle and erecting a little bamboo hut with fences to keep out tigers!
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A hard dirt path leads into the village past a cluster of small bamboo huts .
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The hostages had been kept in mud and bamboo huts in a mosquito-infested swamp area.
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At one time they had to dive out of the bamboo hut in which they were sheltering when a gunfight erupted.
pole
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It includes handmade umbrellas with bamboo poles and struts, and handpainted weatherproof cotton canopies.
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Along the sidewalks, women walked with heavy baskets of produce hooked on bamboo poles laid across their shoulders.
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Both the Corporation and the Company had always turned trolleys with a hooked bamboo pole .
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I decided we should paint all the bamboo poles with raw lacquer before we tied them together.
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The seawater flowed up through the cracks between the bamboo poles , and the wave crest traveled right over the raft.
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Mark lashed the windmill to the inevitable bamboo pole , and we tried propping it near the stern.
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We were happy to see that the bamboo pole looked to be in excellent condition.
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Frustrated designers constructed elaborate beach retreats with driftwood, bamboo poles , and Laura Ashley sheets.
raft
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His 60-foot bamboo raft will have a crew of five or six people.
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The same was true of our bamboo raft .
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But the bamboo raft ploughed forward smoothly.
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But they were not looking out for a small, insignificant speck of a slow-moving bamboo raft .
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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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After a few days on shore I had forgotten just how flexible was our bamboo raft .
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In short, he was ideally suited for long-distance sailing on an increasingly waterlogged bamboo raft .
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It would only test whether the bamboo raft could have been a vehicle for such contact.
shoot
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Add onion, bamboo shoots , ginger, water chestnuts and boy choy and cook 1-2 minutes.
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Fry bamboo shoots for 2 minutes.
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We ate greens and bamboo shoots , picked in the jungle, and occasionally villagers would give us a bit of meat.
■ VERB
make
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Then the guides lured a barking deer, with the sound of a pipe they made out of half-split bamboo .
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She was made of flexible bamboo , while the majority of the other rafts had been more massive, sturdy timber structures.
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It is made of earth and bamboo but it is beautiful.
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The table was made of bamboo , lacquered scarlet, and the top was painted with gilded peonies.
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At the foot of the steps is a shack made of bamboo and planks of wood.
use
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Firm soil around roots and stake standard-trained plants using a bamboo cane.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Along the sidewalks, women walked with heavy baskets of produce hooked on bamboo poles laid across their shoulders.
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Ann's boyfriend hits Tommy around the head with a bamboo cane spiked with nails.
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But the bamboo raft ploughed forward smoothly.
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But the bamboo sailing rafts needed less than a foot of water to float, and came gliding right into the shallows.
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Grazing buffalo knocked over the satellite dish, so a bamboo fence has had to be built around it.
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His 60-foot bamboo raft will have a crew of five or six people.
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I tried peeking down through a gap between the bamboo slats.
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In 1970 a large area of bamboo flowered and died resulting in many deaths through starvation in the panda population.