Crossword-Solution: HICKORY
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| Hickory | n. | An American tree of the genus Carya, of which there are several species. The shagbark is the C. alba, and has a very rough bark; it affords the hickory nut of the markets. The pignut, or brown hickory, is the C. glabra. The swamp hickory is C. amara, having a nut whose shell is very thin and the kernel bitter. |
We have 19 clues for the answer “HICKORY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Baseball bat | 1 answer |
| Wood used for smoking food and making walking sticks in North America | 1 answer |
| Wood for canes. | 1 answer |
| Walnut family member | 1 answer |
| WALNUT tree relative | 1 answer |
| Smoker's aroma, maybe | 1 answer |
| Popular wood for smoking | 1 answer |
| N American nut-bearing tree | 1 answer |
| Cookout flavoring | 1 answer |
| CARYA tree | 1 answer |
| Handle wood | 2 answers |
| Smoking wood | 2 answers |
| LADDER rounds, timber used for | 3 answers |
| AMERICAN HARDWOOD TREE BEARING EDIBLE NUTS | 11 answers |
| NORTH American shrub/tree | 21 answers |
| type of tree | 27 answers |
| forest tree | 35 answers |
| AMERICAN shrub/tree | 47 answers |
| Nut | 58 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with HICKORY (5)
Severe, the overseer, used to stand by the door of the quarter, armed with a large hickory stick and heavy cowskin, ready to whip any one who was so unfortunate as not to hear, or, from any other cause, was prevented from being ready to start for the field at the sound of the horn.
Streaming files of wild ducks began to make their appearance high in the air; the bark of the squirrel might be heard from the groves of beech and hickory-nuts, and the pensive whistle of the quail at intervals from the neighboring stubble field.
Huck found a spring of clear cold water close by, and the boys made cups of broad oak or hickory leaves, and felt that water, sweetened with such a wildwood charm as that, would be a good enough substitute for coffee.
She says: [Illustration: I reckon I got to be excused] “You’ll be excused! _you_ will! Well, I never heard the like of it in all my days! The idea of you talking like that to _me!_ Now take yourself off and pack your traps; and if I hear another word out of you about what you’ll be excused from and what you won’t, I lay _I’ll_ excuse you—with a hickory!” She hit his head a thump with her thimble as we dodged by, and he let on to be whimpering as we struck for the stairs.
For diseases of the body, _Epsom salts and castor oil;_ for those of the soul, _the Lord’s Prayer_, and _hickory switches_! I was not long at Col.
Quotes with HICKORY (3)
But if you ask me what I remember (about 1945), I will say it was the year Franklin D. Roosevelt died and I got one of his flowers. I will tell you that yellow rose give me the courage to do the right thing even if it was hard. I will say it was the time in my life when I learned all of us is fragile as a mimosa blossom. But the miracle of all is, When push comes to shove, we can be just as tough as Hickory. It mostly hurts at first. After a while it starts to feel better.
New nursery rhymes for new times. HIckory dickery dock my daddy's nuts from shelshock. Humpty dumpty thought he was wise till gas came along and hurned out his eyes. A dillar a dollar a ten o-clock schollar blow off his legs and then watch him holler...
In the years that followed the Harrison campaign, many candidates — from Colonel James 'Young Hickory' Polk in 1844 to Lieutenant John Kerry in 2004 — had their 'humble origins' and/or 'war leadership' highlighted in political material. Often coupled with these tactics was a corollary, to create an image of the opposition candidate that was highly negative — from John Adams as a 'monarchist' to John Kerry as a 'flip-flopping, windsurfing elitist.
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Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT, NYT, Universal, WP, WSJ.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1966–2024).