Oaken
['əʊkən] or ['okən]
Definition
(adj.) consisting of or made of wood of the oak tree; 'a solid oak table'; 'the old oaken bucket' .
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Definition
(a.) Made or consisting of oaks or of the wood of oaks.
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Examples
- Beside the fireplace was a heavy oaken chair with arms and cross-bars at the bottom. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Prince John turned pale, tottered, and caught at the back of an oaken bench to support himself--much like to a man who receives an arrow in his bosom. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The old gentleman untucked his arm from his side, and having pointed to one of the oaken presses, immediately replaced it, in its old position. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- It was a very large and high chamber, with carved oak ceiling, oaken panelling, and a fine array of deer's heads and ancient weapons around the walls. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- These iron plates were usually cast in lengths of six feet, and they were secured to transverse wooden sleepers by spikes and oaken pegs. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- He jerked forward the flask and Rigg went to a fine old oaken bureau with his keys. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Of the two ladies, one was well advanced in years; but the high-backed oaken chair in which she sat, was not more upright than she. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Look at that mark upon the seat of the oaken chair! Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- It is as well as it is, said the Palmer; the company, even of a Jew, can hardly spread contamination through an oaken partition. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Entering by the carré, a piece of mirror-glassset in an oaken cabinet, repeated my image. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
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