Definitions
American hardwood tree bearing edible nuts
Word origin
A shortening of pockerchicory/pokickery/pohickery, from Powhatan pawcohiccora.
Used in a sentence
“[H]e came across this young man sawin' on a fiddle and playin' it hot And the devil jumped up on a hickory stump And said, "Boy, let me tell you what."”
“The loggers wore hickory shirts.”
“What you find out is, if you have good hickories, you can play anywhere from 5,300 yards to 6,100 with no problem.”
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Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Smoky hardwood”7 letters
02“Hardwood used for smoking”7 letters
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