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单词 builder oak
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builder oak
builder oak n. Obsolete an oak tree whose timber is of a quality suitable for use in building; (more generally) a large, strong, or impressive oak tree.
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c1430 (c1380) G. Chaucer Parl. Fowls (Cambr. Gg.4.27) (1871) l. 176 Oueral..Were treis..Eche in his kynde..The byldere ok, & ek the hardy assh.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. i. sig. A4 The builder Oake, sole king of forrests all.
1700 J. Dryden Chaucer's Palamon & Arcite iii, in Fables 83 The Mourner Eugh, and Builder Oak were there.
1864 C. Kingsley Roman & Teuton p. lii Of a thousand acorns..but one shall..grow into a builder oak, the rest be craunched up by the nearest swine.
1907 W. H. Venable Cincinnati in E. Venable Poets of Ohio (1909) 338 A century's growth, down crashed the ‘builder Oak,’ The quarry from Silurian slumber woke.
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