Hickory definition
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Origin of hickory
- Short for Virginia Algonquian pocohiquara drink made of pressed hickory nuts
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- A shortening of pockerchicory/pokickery/pohickery., from an Algonquian language, probably Algonquin pawcohiccora.
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