Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A strong, pliant cane.
- n. One of various climbing shrubs with strong lithe stems, some of them furnishing walking-sticks. The name applies primarily to several West Indian and tropical American species, as Paullinia curassavica, P. sphærocarpa, P. Barbadense, Serjania polyphylla (see
basket-wood ) and some other species of Serjania, and to the allied Cardiospermum grandiflorum. In the southern United States Berchemia volubilis, a high twiner of the Rhamnaceæ, is so called. The native supple-jack of Australia consists of varieties of the woody climber Clematis aristata; that of New Zealand is Rubus australis, perhaps the largest known bramble, climbing over the loftiest trees, also calledNew Zealand lawyer .
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A climbing shrub (Berchemia volubilus) of the Southern United States, having a tough and pliable stem.
- n. A somewhat similar tropical American plant (Paullinia Curassavica); also, a walking stick made from its stem.
WordNet 3.0
- n. walking stick made from the wood of an American tropical vine
Examples
““On my soul, sir,” said I, “you will never rest till my supple-jack and your shoulders become acquainted, If you do not go instantly and procure the other brute, you shall pay the penalty of your ingenuity.””
“The people do not fell the tree like the Kru-men, but prefer the hoop of “supple-jack” affected by the natives of Fernando Po and Camarones.”
“The soldier sent to keep them in order did his best with his “supple-jack,” and the consequence was that all bolted into the bush.”
“Hardy whose summit rose on the left to a height of 3,700 feet, the journey was very trying; for about ten miles the bush was a tangle of “supple-jack,” a kind of flexible rope, appropriately called “stifling-creeper,” that caught the feet at every step.”
“He had, however, a happy mixture of pliability and perseverance in his nature; he was in form and spirit like a supple-jack — yielding, but tough; though he bent, he never broke; and though he bowed beneath the slightest pressure, yet, the moment it was away — jerk! he was as erect, and carried his head as high as ever.”
“These wigwams were built of branches of trees placed in a circle, which are bound at the top by a kind of creeper called supple-jack.”
“Herein was the home of the supple-jack, whose branches enfolded you more and more the longer you attempted to force your way through.”
“` ` On my soul, sir, '' said I, ` ` you will never rest till my supple-jack and your shoulders become acquainted, If you do not go instantly and procure the other brute, you shall pay the penalty of your ingenuity. '”
“He had, however, a happy mixture of pliability and perseverance in his nature; he was in form and spirit like a supple-jack -- yielding, but tough; though he bent, he never broke; and though he bowed beneath the slightest pressure, yet, the moment it was away -- jerk!”
Legends That Every Child Should Know; a Selection of the Great Legends of All Times for Young People
“Between Mount Ikirangi which was left to the right, and Mount Hardy whose summit rose on the left to a height of 3,700 feet, the journey was very trying; for about ten miles the bush was a tangle of "supple-jack," a kind of flexible rope, appropriately called "stifling-creeper," that caught the feet at every step.”
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