A name common to about a dozen kinds of nut-bearing trees.
1705. The Kernels of the Hiccories they beat in a Mortar with Water, and make a white Liquor like Milk, whence they call our Milk Hickory.—Beverley, ‘Virginia,’ iii. 15.
1772. The Hiccora: Anno 1772 he [Dr. Stock] has learned to call this by its right name, Hickorey.—B. Romans, ‘Florida,’ p. 293 (1775).
1775. Bears oyl, honey and hickory milk are the boast of the [Chicasaw] country.—Id., p. 94.
