Definitions for hickories

hickories hick·o·ry

Spelling: [hik-uh-ree, hik-ree]
IPA: /ˈhɪk ə ri, ˈhɪk ri/

Hickories is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 19 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 339 anagrams from letters in hickories (cehiikors).

Definitions for hickories

noun

  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.
  6. a city in W North Carolina.

Origin of hickories

1610-20, Americanism; earlier pohickery Virginia Algonquian (E spelling) pocohiquara a milky drink prepared from hickory nuts

Examples for hickories

There was a fire of hickory, but it burned low, as though it knew the winter was over.

Next in line of hardiness and reliability is the Weschcke hickory.

There were plenty of places nearer hickory Ridge for fishing purposes.

We have hickory or ekkeri again, followed by a significant one.

These two main braces of course were extra strong, and made of hickory.

Our hickory brooms were round but Mr. Furnell made a flat one for my sister.

Its flavor can not compare with that of the pecan, hickory, or black walnut.

The hickory had proven as stubborn as he was himself—which is saying a great deal.

Outside, oak and hickory and pecan trees dotted the rolling grassland.

Growing out of fissures of the bark and wood of hickory, Acer, etc.

Word Value for hickories
Scrable

19

Words with friends

18

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