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oaky, a.|ˈəʊkɪ|
[f. oak + -y.]
1. Resembling oak; strong, firm, hard. Also oaky-looking adj.
1631Celestina xxi. 198 Better..in that my more strong and oaky age, then in this my weake and feeble declining. a1656Bp. Hall Estate Chr. Wks. 1837 V. 261 The oaky, rocky, flinty hearts of men turned into flesh. 1921D. H. Lawrence Sea & Sardinia 165 Curious slim oaky-looking trees.
2. Abounding in oaks.
a1816B. Hawkins Sk. Creek Country (1848) 62 The good land spreads out for four or five miles on both sides of the creek, with oaky woods. a1849Beddoes Lines Written in Switzerland Poems 213 What silence drear in England's oaky forest. |