¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hackberries
1. hackberry [n] - See also: hackberry
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hackberries
Literary usage of Hackberries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by United States Supreme Court, Walter Malins Rose, Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, LEXIS Law Publishing (1901)
"Of course, these hackberries marked the northern terminus of the eastern boundary
line, before mentioned, which commenced from them; and two such trees, ..."
2. A Treatise on the Law of Instructions to Juries in Civil and Criminal Cases by Henry Edward Randall (1922)
"... of the grant.82 You are instructed that there has been proof given you tending
to show where the two small hackberries called for as the intersection of ..."
3. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1890)
"The line passed between these hackberries, and they were each marked on the ...
He took those hackberries to be the identical ones called for in the grant ..."
4. The Michigan Engineer by Michigan Engineering Society (1889)
"The original survey called for a stake in the prairie at the NW corner, and for
two hackberries at the, NE corner. The stake had entirely disappeared. ..."
5. Digest of Decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States ...by United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company by United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1917)
"The original survey called for a stake in the prairie at the northwest corner,
and for two hackberries at the northeast corner. ..."
6. Forest Trees of the Pacific Slope by George Bishop Sudworth (1908)
"A single group only of this family, the hackberries, Is represented in the Pacific
... hackberries. A small group of large or medium-sized trees and shrubs, ..."