hickory
IPA: hˈɪkɝi
noun
- (countable) Any of various deciduous hardwood trees of the genera Carya and Annamocarya, one species of which, Carya illinoinensis, is the source of pecan nuts.
- (uncountable) The wood of these trees.
- A coarse, durable cotton fabric.
- (countable, golf, informal) A club with a head made from hickory wood.
adjective
- Of or pertaining to the hickory tree or its wood.
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Examples of "hickory" in Sentences
- If hickory is too strong for your taste, mix it with some oak.
- And almost on denim hickory is favored for similar properties.
- As I thought about it, given a good enough tree, it seemed to me the hickory was the greatest one we could grow.
- The Weiker hickory, which is a cross between shagbark (Carya ovata) and shellbark (C. laciniosa) hickories, ripens completely each season.
- When people speak of the "hickory" without qualification, they are apt to have in mind some one kind of hickory which belonged to their boyhood environment.
- With the exception of the chestnut, the nut trees are not so very common; yet the hickory is not rare, and both the black walnut and the butternut are met with.
- Before we left Connecticut, I had been able to present grafted walnut trees to many of my neighbors who had persisted, hitherto, in calling hickory-nuts "walnuts."
- My notion is that there is a great future for topworking the various varieties of the hickory in the North to the desirable forms of the hickory, that is, of the hickory other than the _Hicoria pecan_.
- The Indians have a fine natural genius for oratory, painting, and sculpture: I have a specimen of the latter cut with a knife on a piece of hickory, which is destitute neither of elegance of design, nor neatness of execution.
- The hickory is a difficult tree to transplant and I would advise that grafted trees be dug with a ball of dirt for shipping, similar to an evergreen, as I have found that, with the greatest of care and experience, the hickory is very slow to re-establish itself unless handled that way.
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