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ˈpost-oak [f. post n.1 + oak.] A species of oak (Quercus stellata) found in sandy soil in the eastern U.S., having hard close-grained durable wood much used for posts, sleepers, etc.; also called iron-oak, rough or box white oak. Also attrib. swamp post-oak, another species (Q. lyrata), growing in river-swamps in the southern U.S., with similar wood.
1775B. Romans Conc. Nat. Hist. E. & W. Florida 18 The principal however are the following:..Virginian white oak... Dwarf white oak, or post oak. a1816B. Hawkins Sk. Creek Country (1848) 19 The trees are post oak, white and black oak, pine [etc.]. Ibid. 20 Between these rivers, there is some good post and black oak land. 1817J. Bradbury Trav. Amer. 257 The timber is generally..on the prairie, post oak. 1835W. Irving Tour Prairies xvii, Our march to-day lay through straggling forests of the kind of low scrubbed trees..called ‘post-oaks’ and ‘black⁓jacks’. 1836D. B. Edward Hist. Texas 46 They are protected..by..post-oak ridges. 1865Michaux's N. Amer. Sylva I. 40 Quercus lyrata..is called the Swamp Post Oak, Overcup Oak, and Water White Oak. 1892J. C. Duval Young Explorers in Early Times in Texas ii. ii. 14 About noon we came to a small stream bordered by a strip of post oak woods. 1906‘O. Henry’ Four Million 58 Joe Larrabee came out of the post-oak flats of the Middle West. 1945B. A. Botkin Lay my Burden Down 263 They found the body of a white man hanging to a post oak. 1969T. H. Everett Living Trees of World 118/2 The post oak..is widely distributed in dryish uplands from Massachusetts to Nebraska. 1975New Yorker 5 May 101/1 All but six of the thirty-six holes are set off by themselves, framed by borders of post oak—a pretty tree that loses its large leaves in winter but retains its attractiveness because of the pleasing contortions of its branches. |