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hick⋅o⋅ry

  [hik-uh-ree, hik-ree]
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–noun, plural -ries.
1. any of several North American trees belonging to the genus Carya, of the walnut family, certain species of which bear edible nuts or yield a valuable wood. Compare pecan, shagbark.
2. the wood of any of these trees.
3. a switch, stick, etc., of this wood.
4. Baseball Slang. a baseball bat.
5. Also called hickory cloth, hickory stripe. a strong fabric of twill construction, used chiefly in the manufacture of work clothes.
Origin:
1610–20, Americanism; earlier pohickery < Virginia Algonquian (E sp.) pocohiquara a milky drink prepared from hickory nuts

Hick⋅o⋅ry

  [hik-uh-ree, hik-ree]
–noun
a city in W North Carolina. 20,757.
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hick·o·ry   (hĭk'ə-rē)   
n.   pl. hick·o·ries
  1. Any of several chiefly North American deciduous trees of the genus Carya, having smooth or shaggy bark, compound leaves, and hard smooth stones or nuts, each containing an edible seed and surrounded by a husk that splits into four valves.
    1. The hard, tough, heavy wood of such a tree.
    2. A walking stick or switch made from such wood.

[Short for Virginia Algonquian pocohiquara, drink made of pressed hickory nuts.]
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Hickory

Hick"o*ry\, n. [North American Indian pawcohiccora (Capt. J. Smith) a kind of milk or oily liquor pressed from pounded hickory nuts. "Pohickory" is named in a list of Virginia trees, in 1653, and this was finally shortened to "hickory." --J. H. Trumbull.] (Bot.) 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.

Hickory shad. (Zo["o]l.) (a) The mattowacca, or fall herring. (b) The gizzard shad.
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hickory 
1671, Amer.Eng., from Algonquian (perhaps Powhatan), shortening of pockerchicory or a similar name for this species of walnut. Old Hickory as the nickname of U.S. politician Andrew Jackson is first recorded 1827.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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