单词 | pohickory |
释义 | pohickoryn. North American. 1. A milky liquid made from ground hickory nuts, used as a beverage or condiment. Now historical and rare. ΚΠ c1612 W. Strachey Hist. Trav. Virginia (1953) I. vii. 103 A woman goddesse..hath at all tymes ready drest greene Vskatahomen and Pokahichary..which is greene Corn bruysed and boyld, and walnutts beatten smale, then washed from the Shells, with a quantety of water, which makes a kynd of Milke. 1896 P. A. Bruce Econ. Hist. Virginia in 17th Cent. I. 167 The aborigines gathered a great abundance of hickory nuts, and placing them in mortars into which water had been poured, pounded shell and kernel until a milky liquor, known as pohickory, had been made. 1900 Atlantic Monthly Jan. 63/1 I would give all the pohickory that was ever brewed by heathen for a toss of aqua vitæ! 1908 E. R. Emerson Beverages II. xvii. 455 The method used by the Indians in making pohickory was to pound the nut, shells and kernels, in a mortar with a proper amount of water until a milky liquor was produced. 1999 A. Davidson Oxf. Compan. Food 615/2 Governor's Island in the upper New York Bay was famous for its hickory nuts, which were of the shellbark kind and well suited to making pohickory. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > North American trees or shrubs > [noun] > hickory pohickory1644 pignut1666 hickory1670 hickory tree1682 shagbark1751 shell-bark1769 scaly-bark1775 swamp hickory1806 hognut hickory1810 kiskitomasa1817 water hickory1818 nutmeg hickory1832 king-nut1880 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > non-British timber trees > [noun] > North American > hickory pohickory1644 hickory1670 shagbark1751 shell-bark1769 scaly-bark1775 1644 in B. Cusack Everyday Eng. 1500–1700 (1998) 142 Then this deponent went out of the Path and tooke a Pochery tree between this deponent and him to see what he was a doeing. 1653 I. F. Let. in S. Hartlib Reformed Virginia Silk-worm 34 Popler, Plum, Crab, Oake, and Apple tree, Yea, Cherry, and tree called Pohickery. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1612 |
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