Editing Ulmus americana (section)

==Uses==
===Wood===
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[[File:Krenov style smooth plane.jpg|thumb|right|A wooden hand plane made of American elm]]
The American elm's wood is coarse, hard, and tough, with interlacing, contorted fibers that make it difficult to split or chop, and cause it to warp after sawing.<ref name="Werthner" /> Accordingly, the wood originally had few uses, save for making hubs for [[wheel|wagon wheels]].<ref name="Werthner" /> Later, with the advent of mechanical sawing, American elm wood was used for [[barrel]] staves, [[trunk (luggage)|trunk-slats]], and [[hoop rolling|hoop-poles]], and subsequently became fundamental to the manufacture of wooden [[automobile]] bodies, with the intricate fibers holding [[screw]]s unusually well.<ref name="Werthner" />

===Pioneer and traditional uses===
Young twigs and branchlets of the American elm have tough, fibrous bark that has been used as a tying and binding material, even for [[Swing (seat)|rope swings]] for children, and also for making [[whip]]s.<ref name="Werthner" />