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hog-nut
ˈhog-nut 1. U.S. The fruit of the Broom Hickory, Carya porcina; also the tree.1829 Loudon Encycl. Plants 794 The Americans make very good and durable brooms by slitting into narrow slips the very tough wood of Juglans glabra, which is called pig or hog-nut, also broom hickory. 1866 Treas. Bot. 228/2... Oxford English Dictionary
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pig-nut
ˈpig-nut [f. pig n.1 + nut.] 1. The tuber of Bunium flexuosum; = earth-nut 1.1610 Shakes. Temp. ii. ii. 172, I with my long nayles will digge thee pig-nuts. 1693 Robinson in Phil. Trans. XVII. 826 The Roots..commonly call'd Kepper-Nuts, Pignuts and Gernuts in the North, lie very deep, and fatten Hog... Oxford English Dictionary
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hickory
hickory (ˈhɪkərɪ) Forms: 7 hiquery, 7–9 hickery, 8 -erie, -ary, heckarry, 8– hiccory, hickory. [Shortened from pohickery, recorded as the native Virginian name in 17th c.] 1. a. A North American tree of the genus Carya, closely allied to the walnut, with tough heavy wood, and bearing drupes (mostly ... Oxford English Dictionary
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