whiteoak

De whipperwill say, 'cut de chip out de whiteoak,' you better git up to keep frum gitting a whipping.

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

Us used to holp de older slaves git out whiteoak splits, and dey larnt us to make cheer bottoms and baskets out of dem splits.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 3 Work Projects Administration

They fancied the Yankees would sit down on the fences and begin to whittle whiteoak toothpicks, darning the rebels, through their noses, meanwhile.

Our March to Washington 1914

But when I got up to it I found it to be a large whiteoak tree that had been cut down and stripped off for tan bark, and become dry, and it being damp that night everything else looked dark around, except that which had a white look, so I got up on it, sat up on it, and rolled on it, for a quarter

Life of George Henry : together with a brief history of the colored people in America, 1894

It was said that the British regulars had stacked their arms around the trunk of the monster whiteoak that stretched its great arms out over the low dark house, which seemed to be creeping nearer and nearer to its mighty trunk for protection, until of late years the spreading branches had dropped their store of glossy acorns and embossed cups even on the farther slope of its mossy roof, a good twenty yards away from the scarred and rugged bole.

Bricks without Straw A Novel 1880