oaken

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The door is of stout timber--oaken--massive as that of a jail; and, opening inward, can only be forced along with its posts and lintels.--These are set in the thick wall, embedded, firm as the masonry itself They rush to the windows, in hope of getting egress there Equally to be disappointed, baffled.

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  1. Made of oak; consisting of oak-trees, or of branches, leaves, or wood, etc., of the oak: as, an oaken plank or bench. Lady Marjorie is condemned to die, To be burnt in a fire of oaken [wood]. Lady Marjorie (Child's Ballads, II. 340). No nation doth equal England for oaken timber wherewith to build ships. Bacon, Advice to Villiers. Clad in white velvet all their troop they led, With each an oaken chaplet on his head. Dryden, Flower and Leaf, l. 253. When oaken woods with buds are pink. Lowell, The Nest.

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  • Accordingly, they went into the old hall, a dark oaken-panelled room, of no great height, with many doors opening into it. —  Sketches and Studies
  • The door is of stout timber--oaken--massive as that of a jail; and, opening inward, can only be forced along with its posts and lintels.--These are set in the thick wall, embedded, firm as the masonry itself They rush to the windows, in hope of getting egress there Equally to be disappointed, baffled. —  The Death Shot A Story Retold
  • The wall containing the thick, oaken, iron-studded door through which he had been thrust was evidently enormously thick, while the chamber itself was some fifteen feet wide by about thirty-five feet long, the end wall opposite the door being curved somewhat in the form of an ellipse, meeting in a blunt angle exactly opposite the door. —  A Chinese Command A Story of Adventure in Eastern Seas
  • The pretty chintz couch laughed at the oaken, high-backed chair, stiff with a century of worm-eaten state. —  Olive A Novel
  • Where is he In his room The lad hurried on, and entered through a door way on his left, to where, in an oaken-panelled room, a stern, slightly grey, military-looking man sat poring over an old book, but looked up directly the lad entered Ah, Ralph, boy," he said; "been out Only on the cliff, father," cried the lad hastily. —  The Black Tor A Tale of the Reign of James the First
 

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  1. from Middle English oken, from Anglo-Saxon ācen (= OFries. eken, etzen = Dutch eiken = Middle Low German eken, ekensch = Old High German eichīn, Middle High German eichīn, eichen, German eichen = Icelandic eikinn), of oak, from āc, oak: see oak.
 

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