Also tewart, tuart. [Native name in Australia.] A West Australian tree, Eucalyptus gomphocephala, which furnishes a very hard heavy durable timber used in ship-building.
1870. Braim, New Homes, iv. 181. Another valuable tree is the tooart, a kind of white gum.
1875. Laslett, Timber & Timber Trees, xxvi. 187. The Tewart Tree (Eucalyptus). A variety of the White Gum…. The wood is … hard, heavy, tough, strong, and rigid…. It is used in ship-building for … keelsons,… and for other works below the line of flotation.
