Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The bark of some species of oak, used in tanning, and to some extent in dyeing and in medicine.
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Examples
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As it turned out, oak-bark leather was the only kind that worked.
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The Navigatio specified that St Brendan's boat was made of oak-bark leather and this was considered evidence that it was a fantasy.
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_ -- Tea, decoction of oak-bark, carbonate of potassium or sodium as antidote.
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First the youth made a salve from oak-bark and young shoots, and many sorts of healing grasses.
Finnish Legends for English Children R. Eivind
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About her hung a searching odour that overcame the common and vulgar odours of the ship, its bilge, its tar, its oak-bark tan, its herring scale, an odour he knew of woods in the wet spring weather.
Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure Neil Munro
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There are likewise several plants that may serve for the making of ink, as oak-bark, red roses, log-wood, &c.
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Castor-oil with flour-gruel, or two ounces of salts at a dose, followed with small draughts of oak-bark tea; or give, twice a day, one of the following powders: pulverized catechu, opium, and Jamaca ginger, of each half an ounce; prepared chalk, one ounce; mix, and divide into twelve powders.
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He noted then that she carried also a blue pitcher filled with thin wine, and two cups of oak-bark.
Chivalry James Branch Cabell 1918
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He noted then that she carried also a blue pitcher filled with thin wine and two cups of oak-bark.
Chivalry James Branch Cabell 1918
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He added also some oak-bark, nut-galls and a good quantity of young sumac shoots.
Darkness and Dawn George Allan England 1906
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