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shittim wood
b. In full shittim wood. The wood of the shittah tree; acacia wood. Now historical.
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1560 Bible (Geneva) Exod. xxv. 13 And thou shalt make barres of Shittim wood, and couer them with golde.
a1592 R. Greene Frier Bacon (1594) sig. Ev In Frigats bottomd with rich Sethin planks.
1611 Bible (King James) Exod. xxv. 5 And shittim wood . View more context for this quotation
a1667 A. Cowley Davideis 53 in Wks. (1668) Near this Halls end a Shittim Table stood.
1693 J. Edwards Disc. conc. Old & New-Test. II. viii. 296 What particular kind of Wood that is which is call'd Shittim..is not agreed among the Learned; some thinking it to be Cedar, others the Pitch-Tree, others Box.
1791 Brown's Sacred Tropol. (new ed.) ii. vii. 173 They are compared to shittah-trees or shittim-wood.
1863 A. P. Stanley Lect. Jewish Church I. vii. 163 The ancient Ark..was..of shittim or acacia.
1894 R. Hunter Sunday School Teacher's Bible Man. 51/1 It [sc. the Ark of the Covenant] was to be made of shittim (i.e. acacia) wood, and overlaid within and without with pure gold.
1911 Nature 18 May 383/2 Shittim-wood might, of course, now be translated as acacia, but even this would be unsatisfactory, as the tree popularly known in this country by the latter name is really a Robinia.
1991 P. O'Brian Nutmeg of Consol. (1993) vii. 183 We mean to build a tabernacle of shittim-wood for our chapel.
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2. U.S. More fully shittim wood, shittim tree. Any of several similar North American shrubby trees; esp. a kind of buckthorn, Rhamnus purshiana, of western areas, and Sideroxylon lanuginosum, of the southern states and Mexico.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > thorny berry-bush > [noun] > buckthorn or rhamnus bushes and parts
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1878 Gardener's Monthly & Horticulturist Jan. 29/2 I have for a dozen years been acquainted with a tree in the Neosho Valley, Kansas, called shittim wood.
1884 C. S. Sargent Rep. Forests N. Amer. 41 Rhamnus Purshiana,..Shittim wood.
1884 C. S. Sargent Rep. Forests N. Amer. 102 Bumelia lanuginosa,..Shittim wood.
1905 R. S. Kellogg Forest Belts Western Kansas & Nebraska (Bull. U.S. Dept. Agric., Bureau Forestry, No. 66) 33 The mesquite, wild china, and shittimwood..reach up into the State [sc. Kansas] from the South.
1987 in C. Kowalchik & W. H. Hylton Rodale's Illustr. Encycl. Herbs 66/1 Also known by the nicknames ‘shittim’ and ‘wahoo’, cascara sagrada is a deciduous shrub or small tree.
1997 L. B. Clegg Empty Schoolhouse 34 There was a white gum we'd chew that came from a shittim tree. It was more like a chewing gum.
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