Definitions
Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word whiteoak.
Examples
-
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.
-
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.
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.