saplin

Their squaws an 'boys are cuttin' saplin's for to carry off their wounded!

A Virginia Scout Hugh Pendexter 1907

"Yes sir, I's tall and slim lak a saplin '; maybe dat a good reason I live so long.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 4 Work Projects Administration

Bime-by I hit upon the likeliest little birch saplin ', right in the middle of a clump of jack pine.

Bald-Face 2010

Bime-by I hit upon the likeliest little birch saplin ', right in the middle of a clump of jack pine.

Bald-Face 2010

Tall and straight as a saplin ', and carried himself like he owned the earth, even when he was a little feller.

Aunt Jane of Kentucky Eliza Calvert Hall

Marse David sont a man to de woods to pick out a lakly lookin 'young white oak saplin' and bent it down a certain way.

Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 2 Work Projects Administration

To see how _he_ liked pork 'n' pone flavored with wa'nut saplin ',

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 Various

Mah daddy went back in de woods en built us a saplin house en dobbed hit wid mud.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Tennessee Narratives Work Projects Administration

Him turn and command me to say right fast: 'Long, slim, slick saplin 'and when I say long, slim, sick slaplin', him 'most kill hisself laughin'.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 1 Work Projects Administration

Den we would get some of dese green saplin out de woods often times to make us a ridin horse wid en would cut down

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 1 Work Projects Administration