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- noun Plural form of
shagbark .
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Examples
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"There'll be no wood like this out west, " he mused, and in the twilight Elly saw him picking fragments from the shagbarks.
Centennial Michener, James 1974
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There are thousands and tens of thousands that ought to be top worked to fine shagbarks, and I am going to call on Mr. White who is the most successful man in this topwork method I have ever seen.
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I have noticed that thick-shelled shellbarks and, to a lesser degree the shagbarks, crack open, in minute hairline cracks, and these nuts which split like this invariably soon become rancid.
Northern Nut Growers Association Thirty-Fourth Annual Report 1943
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MR. CALDWELL: Use this method for shagbarks the same way?
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Pecan pollen that I wish to use upon shagbarks and walnuts I get from Texas.
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After 2 winters, these 7 seedlings are still with us and seem to grow faster than the shagbarks
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There are hickory nuts 1-1/4 inch long and there are shagbarks as full of meat as pecans and probably quite as good.
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If you have wild hickory trees growing on your farm, have them top-worked by the slip-bark or budding method to fine varieties of shagbarks.
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All the shagbarks and shellbarks are doing well, although only the young shagbarks are bearing, and then only lightly.
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This is a very large, attractive, thin-shelled nut, but has been somewhat superseded by other and superior shagbarks.
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