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- noun US, archaic
Eye dialect spelling ofhickory .
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Examples
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June 26th, 2006 at 7:06 am gittin the congress to po-leece its ownself is kindly lack my mama sendin me to git a switch fer my own whuppin. ye kin bet twernt no hickry.
Firedoglake » Corruption and Lobbying Reform Stalls…Again 2006
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Who ever heard of a state prisoner escaping by a hickry-bark ladder?
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Old Marster start in wid dat hickry en mek out lak he gwine ter frail us out, but atter he done landed er few licks on us, en den us commence hollerin lak he hirtin bad, den he quit whippin, dat de way Old Marster wus.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 3 Work Projects Administration
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Buh Squirle bin berry busy duh gedder hickry nut on de groun fuh pit away fuh feed heself and eh fambly der winter time.
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So she took and dusted us both with the hickry, and we was as much as two hours catching another fifteen or sixteen, drat that meddlesome cub, and they warn't the likeliest, nuther, because the first haul was the pick of the flock.
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Who ever heard of a state prisoner escaping by a hickry-bark ladder?
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Owns 150 acres: one-half in original growth -- hickry, oak, and ash.
Useful Information Concerning Yellow Tobacco, and Other Crops, as told by Fifty of the Most Successful Farmers of Granville County, N. C. J. B. Hunter 1880
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So she took and dusted us both with the hickry, and we was as much as two hours catching another fifteen or sixteen, drat that meddlesome cub, and they warn't the likeliest, nuther, because the first haul was the pick of the flock.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain 1872
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Who ever heard of a state prisoner escaping by a hickry-bark ladder?
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain 1872
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So she took and dusted us both with the hickry, and we was as much as two hours catching another fifteen or sixteen, drat that meddlesome cub, and they warn't the likeliest, nuther, because the first haul was the pick of the flock.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 36 to The Last Mark Twain 1872
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