Crossword clues for loblolly
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Loblolly \Lob"lol`ly\, n. [Etymol. uncertain.] Gruel; porridge; -- so called among seamen.
Loblolly bay (Bot.), an elegant white-flowered evergreen shrub or small tree, of the genus Gordonia ( Gordonia Lasianthus), growing in the maritime parts of the Southern United States. Its bark is sometimes used in tanning. Also, a similar West Indian tree ( Laplacea h[ae]matoxylon).
Loblolly boy, a surgeon's attendant on shipboard.
--Smollett.
Loblolly pine (Bot.), a kind of pitch pine found from Delaware southward along the coast; old field pine ( Pinus T[ae]da). Also, Pinus Bahamensis, of the West Indies.
Loblolly tree (Bot.), a name of several West Indian trees, having more or less leathery foliage, but alike in no other respect; as Pisonia subcordata, Cordia alba, and Cupania glabra.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"thick gruel," 1590s, probably from lob, imitative of bubbling and boiling + lolly, obsolete Devonshire dialect word for "broth, soup, food boiled in a pot."
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context dialect nautical English) gruel. 2 (context US southern English) A mudhole. 3 (context now mostly dialect English) A bumpkin or lout. 4 loblolly pine, ''Pinus taeda''. 5 loblolly bay (gloss: plant). vb. Behave in a loutish manner.
WordNet
n. thick gruel
Wikipedia
Loblolly may refer to:
- Loblolly pine (Pinus taeda), a tree
- Loblolly-bay (Gordonia lasianthus), a tree
- Loblolly boy, an assistant to a ship's surgeon
- Loblolly Stable, a horse breeding and racing stable in Arkansas, USA
Usage examples of "loblolly".
Kydd looked away at the loblolly boys, who watched the operation stolidly.
He and Martin closed their eyes, told the loblolly boy to send for the sailmaker as soon as it was day, and went to bed.
The abundance of towering oaks and loblolly pines was one of the things that had surprised Grace most about Houston.
One day as we were wandering in the marshes, far from the paths of men, devouring our own souls, we saw what we thought was a waterspout coming up the bay, and climbed a loblolly pine for safety.
It skirted a line of scrub brush and loblolly pine and led them to a sand dune.
In its mild, slightly wayward northern course, Loblolly Road intersected two apparently anonymous streets before crossing a slightly wider road called Carriage Avenue.
Victorian on Loblolly Road, Tom talked to Franz Pohlhaus on his cell phone.
She looked out over the acres of trim grass, boarded by loblolly and hemlock.
Along the road loblolly pines thinned occasionally to make room for fields of soy beans or healthy stands of high corn.
Instead he veered for the high ground himself, where the water ash and cypress and palmetto gave place to loblolly pine that killed most undergrowth with its needles.
Now the loblolly pine floors with their coating of paste wax felt slick and smooth under the young girl's bare feet as she wandered out, down the hall with its panels of bald cypress and paintings in thick frames of dull gold.
They made their round together - the usual port diseases had made their appearance - and when they, for want of an intelligent reliable loblolly boy, had rolled their own pills, prepared their own draughts and triturated their own quicksilver in hog's lard for blue ointment, Stephen said to Macmillan, 'Among your books, do you have Willis on Mental Derangement or any of the other authorities?
It was in the pines, the management of Carlson Publishing Company being strongly convinced that it was just a matter of time before chemists came up with a means of using fastgrowing loblolly pine for newsprint.
All through the winter and spring, fires smoked the sky as Indians knelt about the trunks of towering oaks and loblolly pine, girdling them and forcing them to die.
He pushed aside an overhanging limb of loblolly pine, then ducked with an exclamation of alarm, as something black shot past his head.