oak

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After 18 months in French oak, the outcome is a hearty, dry red with liqueur aromas.

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  1. noun Any of numerous monoecious deciduous or evergreen trees or shrubs of the genus Quercus, bearing acorns as fruit.
  2. noun The durable wood of any of these trees or shrubs.
  3. noun Something made of this wood.
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  • The walls were wainscoted in English oak, the windows fitted with antique stained glass. —  F ;SF; - vol 092 issue 04 - April 1997
  • After 18 months in French oak, the outcome is a hearty, dry red with liqueur aromas. —  NYT > Travel
  • Here under this oak are a number of old acorn-cups of last autumn's produce; the acorns have fallen out and the black cups remain. —  Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children
  • There stands an oak, and under the oak is a casket, and in the casket is a hare, and in the hare is a duck, and in the duck is an egg, and in the egg is my death Having thus spoken, Koshchei the Deathless tarried there a little longer, and then flew away The time came--Prince Ivan received his mother's blessing and went to look for Koshchei's death. —  Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore
  • Many parts will be found worthy of attention; the timber work of the Octagon is a very curious piece of carpentry executed in English oak, and very massive. —  Ely Cathedral
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  1. Middle English ok, from Old English āc.

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  1. Early modern English oke, from Middle English oke, ok, earlier ake, ak (later Scots aik), from Anglo-Saxon āc = OFries. ēk = Middle Dutch eeke, Dutch eik = Middle Low German ēke, Low German eke = Old High German eih, eich, Middle High German eich, eiche, German eiche = Icelandic eik = Norwegian eik = Swedish ek = Danish eg (= Gothic (Moesogothic) *aiks, not recorded), an oak; in modern Icelandic in the general sense ‘tree’ (cf. Greek δρῦς, a tree, the oak: see dryad). The Lithuanian auzolas, Lettish ohsols, oak, are prob. not related to the Teutonic name. For the confusion of acorn with oak, see acorn. Oak (Middle English oke) occurs in the surnames Nokes and Snooks.
 

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