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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[North American Indian

pawcohiccora

(Capt. J. Smith) a kind of milk or oily liquor pressed from pounded hickory nuts. “

Pohickory

” is named in a list of Virginia trees, in 1653, and this was finally shortened to “hickory.”

J. H. Trumbull.

]

(Bot.)

An American tree of the genus

Carya

, of which there are several species. The shagbark is the

Carya alba

, and has a very rough bark; it affords the hickory nut of the markets. The pignut, or brown hickory, is the

Carya glabra

. The swamp hickory is

Carya amara

, having a nut whose shell is very thin and the kernel bitter.

Hickory shad

(Zool.)

(a)

The mattowacca, or fall herring.

(b)

The gizzard shad.