hickory
hi kuh ree
- n valuable tough heavy hardwood from various hickory trees
- n American hardwood tree bearing edible nuts
- In his father's English parsonage and at strict Westminster School, Christopher Windley Lonsdale "was brought up to respect a hickory stick.
- In 2006 a town in Connecticut felled three hickory trees more than 60 feet high after a resident learned that the trees leaning over her property produced nuts and complained that .
- Wearing overalls and a blue hickory shirt over a yellow one, Lead Belly sang in Manhattan last week for University of Texas alumni.