Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for HICK'O-RY
HIC-JACETHICK'WALL, or HICK'WAY
HICK'O-RY, n.
Several American trees of the genus Carya are so called. They are sometimes called walnut, but not very correctly. Its nut is called hickory-nut.
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