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• she-oak

  n. 1) A tree of the genus Casuarina (q.v.). The timber, which is very hard andmakes good fuel, was ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• She

  (·obj) A woman; a female; — used substantively. II. She (·obj) This or that female; the woman unde...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Oak

  ·noun The strong wood or timber of the oak. II. Oak ·noun Any tree or shrub of the genus Quercus. T...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Oak

  There are six Hebrew words rendered "oak." 1) El occurs only in the word El-paran (Gen. 14:6). The ...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• oak

  A rich maa, a man of good substance and credit. To sport oak; to shut the outward door of a student'...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• oak

  n. The Oak of the Northern Hemisphere( Quercus) is not found among the indigenous treesof Australia...

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• oak

  ♦ Quercus, the valuable monarch of the woods. "Hearts of oak are our ships," as the old song says. ...

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• Oak

  (Heb. strong). There is much difficulty in determining the exact meanings of the several varieties o...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• she house

  A house where the wife rules, or, as the term is, wears the breeches. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• she lion

  A shilling. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• she napper

  A woman thief-catcher; also a bawd or pimp. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• she-beech

  n. See beech. ...

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• Fumed oak

  ·add. ·- Oak given a weathered appearance by exposure in an air-tight compartment to fumes of ammoni...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Oak Tree

  A messuage so called in Watling Street, given to the parish of All Hallows, Bread Street (Strype, Ed...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• cambridge oak

  A willow. ...

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• bull-oak

  n. See oak. ...

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• desert-oak

  n. an Australian tree, Casuarinadecaisneana, F. v. M. See Casuarina and Oak. 1896. Baldwin Spencer...

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• forest-oak

  n. See oak. Forget-me-not, n. The species of this familiar flower is Myosotis australis, R. Br., N...

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• he-oak

  n. See oak and she-oak. ...

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• native oak

  n. See oak. ...

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• oak-apple

  n. the Cone of the Casuarinaor She-Oak tree. 1862. G. T. Lloyd, `Thirty-three Years in Tasmania an...

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• river-oak

  See oak. ...

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• scrub-oak

  n. See oak. ...

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• silky-oak

  n. a tree, often tall, Grevillearobusta, Cunn., N.O. Proteaceae, producing a usefultimber in demand...

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• swamp-oak

  n. 1) A broomlike leguminous shrubor small tree, Viminaria denudata, Sm. (also called Swamp-broom)....

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• oak-webb

  the brown cock-chafer. Cornish. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• shooting of nets

  The running out of nets in the water, as seins, drift-nets, herring-nets, &c.; but it does not apply...

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• away she goes

  The order to step out with the tackle fall. The cry when a vessel starts on the ways launching; also...

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• off she goes!

  Means run away with the purchase fall. Move to the tune of the fifer. The first move when a vessel i...

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• Royal Oak Yard

  In Whitecross Street, Cripplegate (Strype, ed. 1755-Boyle, 1799). Not named in the maps. ...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• botany-bay oak

  or Botany-Bay Wood ,n. a trade name in England for the timber of Casuarina. See Beef-wood. ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• room. she lets out her fore room and lies backwards: saying of a woman suspected of prostitution.

  Stealing poultry. ...

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