Lexicographical Neighbors of Shinneries
Literary usage of Shinneries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Timber of the Edwards Plateau of Texas: Its Relations to Climate, Water by William L. Bray (1904)
"shinneries.—A special feature of the mixed timber covering on the "hardscrabble
... Although the shinneries are made up of the mixed timber above mentioned, ..."
2. Forest Physiography: Physiography of the United States and Principles of by Isaiah Bowman (1911)
"On the broken limestone areas are the "oak shinneries," marked by a predominating
growth of oak or dwarf shin oak. These are simply dense thickets, ..."
3. Western Grazing Grounds and Forest Ranges: A History of the Live-stock by Will Croft Barnes (1913)
"This is the scrub oak of the western ranges, especially in the Southwest, where
it forms as on the Texas staked plains great areas called "shinneries. ..."
4. Western Grazing Grounds and Forest Ranges: A History of the Live-stock by Will Croft Barnes (1913)
"This is the scrub oak of the western ranges, especially in the Southwest, where
it forms as on the Texas staked plains great areas called "shinneries. ..."
5. Report of the Special Committee of the United States Senate on the by Geological Survey (U.S.) (1890)
"On the ridges or local divides, between the smaller water-courses, are narrow
strips of red or grayish sand, commonly known as shinneries. ..."
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