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- noun Plural form of
hickory .
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Examples
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And at Lancaster, Pa., there has been a chance the past year to see some remarkable work on top worked hickories, that is, the early bearing of crops of fine nuts.
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Perhaps the most beloved and widely distributed of the hickories is the shagbark, _Carya ovata_.
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Those species, however, whose seeds are in the form of nuts, such as hickories, black walnut, chestnuts, and oaks, are particularly adapted to propagation by direct seeding.
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Grand oaks predominated and other trees such as hickories, poplars, pines, red maples, persimmons, black gums, dogwoods, and sourwoods were interspersed.
The University of North Carolina Campus: Natural Environment and Landscaping (1792-1877) William R. Burk 1877
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For making blue cotton shirts, or "hickories" as they are called, a woman receives six cents apiece, and must furnish her own thread; for making linen coats she receives from fifteen to twenty cents apiece; for men's heavy overalls she gets sixty-two cents a dozen; for flannel shirts one dollar a dozen.
Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City James Dabney McCabe 1862
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Our way led beneath spreading oaks, hickories, sweet gums, and occasional maples.
Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011
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WINDING ALONG HIGH ground where tall oaks, maples, and hickories crowded the sky, we descended to a swampy bottom filled with palmettos, water oaks, gums, and bald cypresses.
Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011
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No one spoke as we marched along under the spreading oaks, hickories, gums, and maples.
Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011
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WINDING ALONG HIGH ground where tall oaks, maples, and hickories crowded the sky, we descended to a swampy bottom filled with palmettos, water oaks, gums, and bald cypresses.
Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011
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No one spoke as we marched along under the spreading oaks, hickories, gums, and maples.
Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011
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