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Oak and ash is British theatre rhyming slang for cash.
Oak is British slang for joke.
Oakland, California
Oakland, California
Gospel oak is old London Cockney rhyming slang for a joke.
Hearts of oak is London Cockney rhyming slang for without money (broke).
Ash and oak is London Cockney rhyming slang for cigarette (smoke).
Old oak is British rhyming slang for London (the Smoke).
Used in insignia as a tribute to the days when ships were built of oak.
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Firm as a stub or stump; stiff; unbending; unyielding; persistent; hence, unreasonably obstinate in will or opinion; not yielding to reason or persuasion; refractory; harsh; -- said of persons and things; as, stubborn wills; stubborn ore; a stubborn oak; as stubborn as a mule.
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A young oak, or other timber plant, laid down in a hedge among the whitethorn or other plants used in hedges.
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To convert (the skin of an animal) into leather, as by usual process of steeping it in an infusion of oak or some other bark, whereby it is impregnated with tannin, or tannic acid (which exists in several species of bark), and is thus rendered firm, durable, and in some degree impervious to water.
v. t.
To cleave; to rive; to split; as, to rift an oak or a rock; to rift the clouds.
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An oaken sapling or cudgel; any cudgel; -- so called from Shillelagh, a place in Ireland of that name famous for its oaks.
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The California poison oak (Rhus diversiloba). See under Poison, a.
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Resembling oak; strong.
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The strong wood or timber of the oak.
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A young oak.
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Stiff; stout; strong; as, a sturdy oak.
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Any tree or shrub of the genus Quercus. The oaks have alternate leaves, often variously lobed, and staminate flowers in catkins. The fruit is a smooth nut, called an acorn, which is more or less inclosed in a scaly involucre called the cup or cupule. There are now recognized about three hundred species, of which nearly fifty occur in the United States, the rest in Europe, Asia, and the other parts of North America, a very few barely reaching the northern parts of South America and Africa. Many of the oaks form forest trees of grand proportions and live many centuries. The wood is usually hard and tough, and provided with conspicuous medullary rays, forming the silver grain.
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A scaly parasitic plant (Conopholis Americana) found in oak woods in the United States; -- called also cancer root.
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A green or blue pigment produced by Peziza in certain kinds of decayed wood, as the beech, oak, birch, etc., and extracted as an amorphous powder resembling indigo.
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Made or consisting of oaks or of the wood of oaks.
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A thicket or jungle, often specified by the name of the prevailing plant; as, oak scrub, palmetto scrub, etc.
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The acorn cup of two kinds of oak (Quercus macrolepis, and Q. vallonea) found in Eastern Europe. It contains abundance of tannin, and is much used by tanners and dyers.
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Oaken timber or boarding.
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The bark of the oak, and some other trees, bruised and broken by a mill, for tanning hides; -- so called both before and after it has been used. Called also tan bark.
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Made of oak.
v. t.
To break at once into many pieces; to dash, burst, or part violently into fragments; to rend into splinters; as, an explosion shatters a rock or a bomb; too much steam shatters a boiler; an oak is shattered by lightning.
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