oak apple

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Origin of oak apple

late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50

Words nearby oak apple

oaf, oafish, O agglutinin, Oahu, oak, oak apple, Oak-apple Day, Oak Creek, Oakdale, oaked, oaken

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How to use oak apple in a sentence

Leapolitan responded by saying, “hopefully youll [sic] bite into a poison apple.”
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Apple customers, on the other hand, are used to paying premium for perceived quality.
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The process of co-opting black music and selling it back to the adoring public in whiteface is as American as apple pie.
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Companies like Delta, Apple, and Nike flex their political muscle on behalf of gay rights.
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Apple, PetSmart, Wells Fargo, Marriott, and Delta also spoke out.
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This gives to the second volume something of the smell of an apple store-room.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 107, November 3, 1894|Various
Twenty acres of apple trees all in a orchard together, and twenty acres of strawberries set out betwixt and between the rows!
The Bondboy|George W. (George Washington) Ogden
All this while Squinty was chewing on the apple which he had picked up from the ground after he had jumped over the rope.
Squinty the Comical Pig|Richard Barnum
And it did not take Squinty long to learn to jump the rope when there was no apple on the other side.
Squinty the Comical Pig|Richard Barnum
Then Squinty would toss the apple up in the air, off his nose, and catch it as it came down.
Squinty the Comical Pig|Richard Barnum

British Dictionary definitions for oak apple

oak apple

oak gall

noun

any of various brownish round galls on oak trees, containing the larva of certain wasps

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