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n. (oak gall English)
Usage examples of "oak galls".
I could smell the woody reek of oak galls brewed with iron filings.
They tied him to a pole in the center of the village, and painted his face with an ink made from soot and oak galls.
Nivor-his shop is on the other side of the Avenue-that was where Tellis got brimstone and oak galls to make ink.
They usually had an ounce or two of green copperas, though, which could make a decent ink if you mixed it with crushed oak galls or green walnut shells.
He made these marks himself on this deerskin, using a sharpened turkey feather and some black paint that he cooked up from burned wood and oak galls.
Black from the oak galls, browns and full reds from the earth of the Wild Wood and the blues and the greens from minerals taken from its rocks.
It ought to have been enough for you, ye scoundrels, to have changed the pearls of my lady's eyes into oak galls, and her hair of purest gold into the bristles of a red ox's tail, and in short, all her features from fair to foul, without meddling with her smell.
The miller's son had begun experimenting with paper making a year ago, and now his efforts were on sale roughly every other market day, alongside inks Keisha had taught him to make from oak galls and soot, small brushes he made from badger hair, and pens he cut himself from goose quills.