hickory

• pokickery (archaic)
• hiccory, hickery, hickry (older, now nonstandard spellings)

A shortening of pockerchicory/pokickery/pohickery,[1] from Powhatan pawcohiccora.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɪkəɹiː/, /ˈhɪkɹiː/

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• Rhymes: -ɪkəɹi

hickory (countable and uncountable, plural hickories)

1. (countable) Any of various deciduous hardwood trees of the genera Carya and Annamocarya, one species of which, Carya illinoinensis, is the source of pecan nuts.
   • 1979, “The Devil Went Down to Georgia”, in Charlie Daniels, Tom Crain, "Taz" DiGregorio, Fred Edwards, Charles Hayward, James W. Marshall (lyrics), Million Mile Reflections, performed by The Charlie Daniels Band:

     [H]e came across this young man sawin' on a fiddle and playin' it hot
     And the devil jumped up on a hickory stump
     And said, "Boy, let me tell you what."

2. (uncountable) The wood of these trees.
3. A coarse, durable cotton fabric.

   The loggers wore hickory shirts.

4. (countable, golf, informal) A club with a head made from hickory wood.
   • 2012, Lee Pace, The Golden Age of Pinehurst: The Story of the Rebirth of No. 2, page 117:

     What you find out is, if you have good hickories, you can play anywhere from 5,300 yards to 6,100 with no problem.

   • 2013, Alfie Ward, Fairways! What Fairways?, page 182:

     I still had in my possession thirteen sets of hickories and a good stock of gutty golf balls, […]

hickory (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to the hickory tree or its wood.

hickory m (plural hickorys)

1. hickory

• “hickory”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.