A species of hickory; also the nut it bears.

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1792.  [Among the walnuts is the] Shag-bark (juglans cineria?) … The fruit is preferable [to that of the common hickory], being larger, and having a softer shell.—Jeremy Belknap, ‘New Hampshire,’ iii. 100–1.

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1796.  The shagbark, English walnut, &c. are very plenty.—Gazette of the U.S., Phila., Aug. 23.

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1802.  The growth of the shagbark walnuts has been remarkably slow.—Mass. Spy, March 10.

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1821.  Hickory: Varieties, White, Red, Shag-bark, Walnut, Pignut, Bitternut, Beetlenut.—T. Dwight, ‘Travels,’ i. 40.

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1854.  

          The sobered robin, hunger-silent now,
Seeks cedar-berries blue, his autumn cheer;
  The squirrel, on the shingly shag-bark’s bough,
Now saws, now lists with downward eye and ear.
J. R. Lowell, ‘Indian-Summer Reverie.’    

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1846.  

        And proud was I to pound the crackers, or to stone the plums,
Or crack the shagbarks with flat-irons that often cracked my thumbs.
Knick. Mag., xxviii. 93 (July).    

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1850.  We knew a Wall-street bank-messenger formerly, whose feet looked like two parcels of shag-bark walnuts, tied up in small leather bags.—Id., xxxv. 557 (June).

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1851.  A deep box, containing ‘black’ and ‘shag-bark’ walnuts, chestnuts, chinquepins, and hazel-nuts or filberts.—Id., xxxvii. 183 (Feb.).

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