Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
hornbeam .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A tree of the genus Carpinus, of compact, horny texture; hornbeam.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A tree, the
hornbeam .
Etymologies
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hard + beam?
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Examples
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"in time, waxeth so hard, that the toughness and hardness of it may be rather compared to horn than unto wood, and therefore it was called horne-beam or hardbeam."
Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884 Various
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