hazle

a tree named _luma_, for axle-trees and the poles of carriages; of a particular kind of hazle for ship-building, which answers excellently for oars; they likewise make chests and boxes of a species of cypress, and of a tree named _ciruelillo_.

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 05 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time Robert Kerr 1784

Bleaks in a boat in a Summers evening, with a hazle top about five or six foot long, and a line twice the length of the

The Compleat Angler 2007

Immediately upon their receiving this name, the trumpet is sounded, and they all leave the hill and return for Mecca, and being gone two or three miles on their way [,] they then rest for that night34; but after nomas, before they go to rest, each person gathers nine-and-forty small stones about the bigness of an hazle nut; the meaning of which I shall acquaint you with presently.

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

Three hundred years ago the British scientist Thomas Harriot wrote, “Those weapons that they have, are onlie bowes made of Witch hazle, and arrows of reeds; neither have they anything to defend themselves but targets made of barcks; and some armours made of sticks wickered together with thread.”

A Lincoln Rhyme eBook Boxed Set Jeffery Deaver 2001

-- The common wild hazle of our hedges has been improved, by chance or cultivation, into the several varieties of red and white filberts and cob-nuts.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 281, November 3, 1827 Various

Working them upon the hazle, or upon themselves, is necessary; because, it not only makes them more fruitful, but also brings them sooner into bearing.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 281, November 3, 1827 Various

And harebells bloomin 'bonnie, O! Below a spreadin' hazle lea,

The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various

John Aubrey, who knew him personally, thus describes him: 'He was of a middling stature, pretty strong set, roundish cherry-checked, hazle-eyed, brown-haired.'

The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 Various

Sir ROGER was proceeding in the character of him, when we saw him make up to us with two or three hazle-twigs in his hand, that he had cut in

The Coverley Papers Various

Take the flesh of a hinder part of a hare, or any other venison and mince it small with a little fat bacon, some pistaches or pine-apple kernels, almonds, Spanish or hazle nuts peeled, Spanish chesnuts or

The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery Robert May