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shagbark West Indian and U.S.|ˈʃægbɑːk|
[f. shag a. + bark n.1
So called on account of the rough and shaggy appearance of the bark when the tree is old.]
1. West Indian. = savonette b.
1691–6Plukenet Almagestum Wks. 1769 III. 373 Shag⁓barke Barbadensibus dicta, eo quod in hac Arbore cortex scabritie valde asperatus est. 1864Grisebach Flora W. Ind. Islands 787 Shag-bark: Pithecolobium micradenium.
2. U.S. A variety of hickory; also the wood or the nut of this tree. Also attrib. or adj. as a designation of this tree.
1751J. Bartram Observ. 67 A great hill, cloathed with large Magnolia,..shagbark-hickery, chesnut and chesnut oak. 1788J. May Jrnl. 20 June, My men employed in planting shagbarks, which out here [at Marietta, Ohio] are the largest one can conceive of. 1827J. Q. Adams Mem. 12 Aug., Two more of my shagbark walnut-trees have come up. 1856Lowell Lett. (1894) I. 304 There were the same high-heaped shagbark trees. 1860Worcester, Shag⁓bark,..the nut of the tree Carya alba. 1866Whittier Snow-bound 348 From the shagbark overhead The grizzled squirrel dropped his shell. 1878Mrs. Stowe Poganuc P. xx. 179 For the frost ripened the shag-bark walnuts. 1902Greenough & Kittredge Words 340 In some parts of America the name walnut is given to the ‘shagbark’, a kind of hickory nut, and the true walnut is known as the ‘English walnut’.
So † shag-barked a.
1786Abercrombie Gard. Assist., Arrangemt. 35 Walnut tree,..Black American, or hickory,..Shag barked. |