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n. (plural of hickory nut English)
Usage examples of "hickory nuts".
Anyone else would have seen a greasy brown fat man with the eyes of a cow pony and jowls which appeared packed full of hickory nuts, gopher fashion.
Dinner consisted of trout grilled over the fire, vams baked in it, wild plums, and a very crude cake made of flour from hickory nuts, ground Lip in inmortar.
The cattail rush basket in which we store the hickory nuts is almost empty.
They'd found food on the way: a store of hickory nuts dug from the trunk of a hollow tree, and the small animals which Beard had sensed cowering in holes.
He resumed a tail-high patrol which seemed to ignore the occasional hickory nuts lying in the grass.
But I happen to know Guy likes to crack hickory nuts in your kitchen.
Blue was giving orders to carry the food they had gathered: hickory nuts, plums, pole greens, potato beans, and a pile of skinned animalsall the trouble they took with these poisonous parcels of garbage!
Mama and Daddy knelt under that tree, holding onto one another, wet leaves plastering onto their backs and hickory nuts shaking down in still-green shells till the storm passed.
On other days a small amount of milk, hickory nuts, roasted acorns and yams.