black-gum

Some in gums made from sections of the hollow trunks of black-gum trees, holes augured in them and oriented with the points of the compass.

Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003

Feeling empty, however, as the core of a big black-gum tree.

Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003

Some in gums made from sections of the hollow trunks of black-gum trees, holes augured in them and oriented with the points of the compass.

Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 1997

Feeling empty, however, as the core of a big black-gum tree.

Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 1997

The mountains are covered from foot to summit with fine forests of maple, hickory, oak, sweet and black-gum, sourwood and pine.

Autumn and Winter in the Land of the Sky U.S. 1915

Those not already cleared for cultivation were covered with a magnificent growth of timber, - oaks of many species, yellow pine, hickory, elm, sweet-and black-gum, besides countless other trees and shrubs of less value.

Memorials of a southern planter, 1887

But they're to stay there until some of those black-gum trees begin to glut the market with yellow clings and Japanese plums.

The Gentle Grafter O. Henry 1886

Her lap was full of autumn leaves -- maple and gum, flaming and variegated, brown oak of various shapes and shades, golden hickory, the open burrs of the chintuapine, pine cones, and the dun scraggly balls of the black-gum, some glowing bunches of the flame-bush, with their wealth of bursting red beries, and a full-laden branch of the black-haw.

Bricks without Straw A Novel 1880

He told me to put her hair and some stuff he give me into a hole in the black-gum that hangs over the stone, and I did it.

Shapes that Haunt the Dusk Henry Mills Alden 1877

I see a woman hiding something in a black-gum tree that hangs over running water.

Shapes that Haunt the Dusk Henry Mills Alden 1877