Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
nutgall : used especially of those borne by the California white oak, Quercus lobata.
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Examples
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"Well, sir, you know that an oak-ball will smoke when you bust it atwixt your fingers -- but there ain't no fire in it," grunted Ham, philosophically.
Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers W. Bertram Foster
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"Smoke comes from an oak-ball, but there ain't no fire."
How Janice Day Won Helen Beecher Long
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Begin at the top of the frame, and make it higher and more imposing than the sides; put first a fir-cone, and then a couple of beech-nuts, and then an oak-ball, or a piece of lichen, and so on.
Little Folks (October 1884) A Magazine for the Young Various
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