black haw

American  

noun

1. sheepberry.

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Etymology

Origin of black haw

An Americanism dating back to 1700–10

Example Sentences

The black haw has the characteristic flowers and fruit of its genus, but is smaller throughout than the other two, and its branches are stout.

From Trees Worth Knowing by Rogers, Julia Ellen

The last admonition was shared with the bent old lady, who was too dim-sighted, evidently, to have seen her laborer’s telepogram and now appeared from around the misnamed white-blooming black haw.

From Lonesome Town by Dorrance, Ethel

Tugging at the strings of the poke bonnet, she stepped toward the cover of a nearby black haw whose flat-topped, branch-end clusters of bloom gleamed like phosphorus over a dark sea.

From Lonesome Town by Dorrance, Ethel

We saved a heap of bark from wild cherry and poplar and black haw and slippery ellum trees and we dried out mullein leaves.

From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 1 by Work Projects Administration

An' back a little an' there's jest thickets of papaw, an' thorns, an' wild grape-vines, an' crab, an' red an' black haw, an' dogwood, an' sumac, an' spicebush, an' trees!

From The Song of the Cardinal by Stratton-Porter, Gene