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hickory
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Hickory (from Powhatan ) is a type of tree , comprising the genus Carya ( " nut "). The genus includes 17–19 species of deciduous trees with pinnately compound leaves and large nuts . Five or six species are native to China , Indochina , and India ( State ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hickory \Hick"o*ry\, n. [North American Indian pawcohiccora (Capt. J. Smith) a kind of milk or oily liquor pressed from pounded hickory nuts. ``Pohickory'' is named in a list of Virginia trees, in 1653, and this was finally shortened to ``hickory.'' ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Add half to each pile when the time comes, plus two more hickory chunks to each side. ▪ Always after lunch I told them a story in a clearing under the oaks and hickories. ▪ Chris arranged for a lorry to load 12 tons of hickory ...
Gazetteer
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Population (2000): 499 Housing Units (2000): 207 Land area (2000): 0.931167 sq. miles (2.411712 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 0.931167 sq. miles (2.411712 sq. km) FIPS code: 31980 Located within: Mississippi ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Of or pertaining to the hickory tree or its wood. n. 1 Any of various deciduous hardwood trees of the genus ''Carya'' or (taxlink Annamocarya genus noshow=1). 2 (context uncountable English) The wood of these trees.
Usage examples of hickory.
In your homestyle smoker, smoke andouille at 175-200 degrees F for approximately four to five hours using pecan or hickory wood.
Sage 5 ts Liquid hickory smoke Andouille was a great favorite in nineteenth-century New Orleans.
His lance was done for, until he could either give the head of it back to a good armorer or find an appropriate hickory sapling.
The succulent aroma of barbecuing pork wafted through the chill spring air, and fragrant clouds of hickory smoke rose from the fires near the smithy, where haunches of venison, sides of mutton, and broiled fowl in their dozens turned on spits.
It had peanuts, pecans, pistachios, almonds, cashews, Brazil, acorns, macadamia, walnut, chestnut, pine, beechnut, filbert, hickory, mixed.
He had never gone ratting about the countryside with Hickory Lee, and when this Korean woman invaded the Bali Hai with the avowed intention, some said, of sleeping with the entire contingent, she had been assured by the other wives that her husband would have nothing to do with her.
Aghdon and struck off across the uplands, leaving the largest of the ironoaks behind them and entering a forest of hickory, liquidambar, and witaec.
They left Aghdon and struck off across the uplands, leaving the largest of the ironoaks behind them and entering a forest of hickory, liquidambar, and witaec.
But when they made him president, Ol' Hickory packed the Choctaws up right along with the dang Creeks, sent the whole sad and sorry bunch off to Oklahoma.
I told the Frenchman that Ol' Hickory kept a soft spot in his heart for Choctaws all the same.
THE WHITE ASHES OF HICKORY OR MAPLE WOOD dissolved in water make an excellent alkaline drink in fevers, or whenever the system seems surcharged with acidity.
On the surface, Governor Barnett ruled a lush and tranquil land blanketed with luxuriant forests of virgin pines, tupelo, sycamore, persimmon, magnolia, holly, sweet gum, and hickory, from gentle foothills in the north to cypress swamps curtained with Spanish moss and Gulf Coast resorts in the south.
It is a high tract of country from which one looks across the lower reaches to the distant Blue Ridge mountains, whose wholesome breath, all unobstructed, here blends with the woods-odors of the beech, the hickory and the muscadine: a part of a range recalled elsewhere by Mr.
Through that vague wafture, expirations strong Throb from young hickories breathing deep and long With stress and urgence bold of prisoned spring And ecstasy of burgeoning.
The normative astronaut was Hickory Lee: quiet, fearfully efficient, solid drinker off duty, quick to anger if his rights were trespassed, and average in almost every other human reaction.