Definition of Hoop ash

1. Noun. Vigorous spreading North American tree having dark brown heavy wood; leaves turn gold in autumn.

Exact synonyms: Basket Ash, Black Ash, Brown Ash, Fraxinus Nigra
Generic synonyms: Ash, Ash Tree

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hoop Ash

hooliganisms
hooligans
hoolock
hoolocks
hooly
hoom
hoon
hoond
hoonds
hooned
hooning
hoonoomaun
hoonoomauns
hoons
hoop
hoop ash (current term)
hoop pine
hoop skirt
hoop skirts
hoop snake
hoop snakes
hooped
hooper
hoopers
hooping
hoopla
hooplas
hoopless
hooplike
hoopoe

Literary usage of Hoop ash

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Francis Lieber, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1831)
"hoop ash. (See Hackberry.) HOOPER, William, a signer of the declaration of independence, was born in Boston, June 17, 1742, and was the son of a clergyman ..."

2. The Book of Woodcraft and Indian Lore by Ernest Thompson Seton (1921)
"BLACK ASH, Hoop ASH OR WATER ASH. (Fraxinus nigra) A tall forest tree of swampy places; 70, 80 or rarely too feet ..."

3. Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1838)
"... the battle- axe, or mace, of the knights. HABITATION. (See Domini, Appendix to vol. iv, page 613 ; also Dwelling.) HACKBERRY, or hoop ash ..."

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