she-oak
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of she-oak
C18 she (in the sense: inferior) + oak
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
"Well, young people, what luck?" said the burly mine-owner, as with his hands on his hips, he leant against a she-oak.
From Tom Gerrard by Becke, Louis
They had chummed together on the seventy-odd-mile tramp from Melbourne; had boiled a common billy and slept side by side in rain-soaked blankets, under the scanty hair of a she-oak.
From Australia Felix by Richardson, Henry Handel
The word sounded like a breath of evening air, kissing the she-oak foliage.
From Such Is Life by Furphy, Joseph
The trees in general were the tall she-oak so common in the neighbourhood of Sydney.*
From The Logbooks of the Lady Nelson With the journal of her first commander Lieutenant James Grant by Lee, Ida
The tree there resembles our common mountain fir: it is exactly like it in the bark; but it is called by the settlers, the she-oak.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 by Various
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
