hickory
noun/ˈhɪkəɹiː/ · /ˈhɪkɹiː/
Etymology A shortening of pockerchicory/pokickery/pohickery, from Powhatan pawcohiccora.
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Any of various deciduous hardwood trees of the genera Carya and Annamocarya, one species of which, Carya illinoinensis, is the source of pecan nuts.
- [H]e came across this young man sawin' on a fiddle and playin' it hot And the devil jumped up on a hickory stump And said, "Boy, let me tell you what."1979, “The Devil Went Down to Georgia”, in Charlie Daniels, Tom Crain, "Taz" DiGregorio, Fred Edwards, Charles Hayward, James W. Marshall (lyrics), Million Mile Reflections, performed by The Charlie Daniels Band:
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The wood of these trees.
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A coarse, durable cotton fabric.
- The loggers wore hickory shirts.
- What you find out is, if you have good hickories, you can play anywhere from 5,300 yards to 6,100 with no problem.2012, Lee Pace, The Golden Age of Pinehurst: The Story of the Rebirth of No. 2, page 117:
- I still had in my possession thirteen sets of hickories and a good stock of gutty golf balls, […]2013, Alfie Ward, Fairways! What Fairways?, page 182:
- Derived terms
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banded hickory borer, beaked hickory, black hickory, brown hickory, hican, hickory cloth, Hickory County, hickory elm, hickory eucalyptus, hickory girdler, hickory golf, hickory horned devil, hickoryite, hickory nut, hickory oak, hickory-pickery, Hickory Point, hickory shad, hickory stripe, hickory wattle, mountain hickory, shagbark hickory, shellbark hickory, swamp hickory, Texas hickory, water hickory