oakes

But she has not yet all done, nor made an end of her voyage; being so dress'd she continues her course still towards the same pole for the space of two dayes in a very cleer wood, and where there is very high and tall trees of which most be oakes, which is the reason that there is great store of bears.

Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson Pierre Esprit Radisson 1673

As witherd oakes or elmes are hewne from off the playne.

The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton

And in like sorte, I fully founde in my selfe, an increase and flashing abroade of my inwarde flames, in their prepared subject, so effectually, that her amorous regardes gaue me mortall and deadly woundes: euen as lightning and thunder, among the stronge and mightie oakes, suddainely with a great force, scorching & tearing them.

Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

Crown'd with a grove of oakes! flie where men feele

Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois George Chapman

In 1498 we find that "The abbot of Whitby had as many oakes taken in Godlande [Goathland] as made aftre the maner of the Coutrey iij pair of forkes, with other bemes and wall plaites as were mete for the repairalling of an hows of his in Godlande."

The Evolution of an English Town Gordon Home 1923

Without it is a Row of oakes wth thick heads wch makes it very shady.

Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary 1888

Here I met with many Rowes of Elm trees wch I have not found in any Country Except Wiltshire; these were mostly soe, tho 'there were alsoe ashes and oakes.

Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary 1888

So they went up into the woods, and saw great store of very goodly oakes and some currants.

Great Epochs in American History, Volume I. Voyages Of Discovery And Early Explorations: 1000 A.D.-1682 Various 1885

Severall fields of all sides of Indian corne, severall of french tournaps, full of chestnutts and oakes of accorns, with thousand such like fruit in abundance.

Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson Pierre Esprit Radisson 1673

Wee entred afterwardes into the wooddes, which wee founde so greate and thicke, that an armye (were it never so greate) mighte have hydd it selfe therein, the trees whereof were oakes, cypresses, and other sortes unknowen in Europe.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. Richard Hakluyt 1584