Crossword-Solution: SHAGBARK
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Shagbark | n. | A rough-barked species of hickory (Carya alba), its nut. Called also shellbark. See Hickory. |
| Shagbark | n. | The West Indian Pithecolobium micradenium, a legiminous tree with a red coiled-up pod. |
We have 5 clues for the answer “SHAGBARK”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Kind of hickory | 1 answer |
| North American hickory tree | 1 answer |
| Rough-looking hickory. | 1 answer |
| HICKORY tree | 4 answers |
| Hickory | 4 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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eruption
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Sentences with SHAGBARK (5)
The sobered robin, hunger-silent now, Leeks cedar-berries blue, his autumn cheer; The squirrel on the shingly shagbark's bough, Now saws, now lists with downward eye and ear, Then drops his nut, and, with a chipping bound, Whisks to his winding fastness underground; The clouds like swans drift down the streaming atmosphere.
There also we noticed some shagbark-trees, which, as they do not grow in Concord, were as strange a sight to us as the palm would be, whose fruit only we have seen.
The timber or the European species, when straight-grained, and clear, or free from knots, is, for ordinary purposes, better than that of the American black walnut, but bears no comparison with the wood of the hickory, when strength combined with elasticity is required, and its nut is very inferior in taste to that of the shagbark, as well as to the butternut, which it somewhat resembles.
Just as dad was about to die there on the limb of a shagbark hickory, the fellows behind the trees touched off a small dynamite cartridge and threw it under the tree, and when it exploded the wild hogs ran away, dad fell off the limb, and he was rescued.
Nor would his "squirrel-theory" of distribution have been very confidently adhered to, fifty years ago, in localties where the shagbark walnut was almost as abundant as the white oak itself.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1958–2020).