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oaken, a.|ˈəʊkən|
[f. oak + -en4.]
1. Made of the wood of the oak. (Now often replaced by ‘oak’ used attrib., oak 8 a.)
13..K. Alis. 6415 The face of heom is playn, and hard, Al so hit weore an oken bord. 1390–1Earl Derby's Exp. (Camden) 157 Pro xiij oken sparrez, iiijs. xd. 1495Naval Acc. Hen. VII (1896) 154 Oken plankes. 1616Surfl. & Markh. Country Farme 335 Stake well with strong Oaken stakes. 1703Moxon Mech. Exerc. 173 An Oaken plank. c1820S. Rogers Italy (1830) 112 An oaken chest, half eaten by the worm. 1864Mrs. Gatty Parables fr. Nat. Ser. iv. 148 The chancel, where there were carved oaken screens.
fig.1577Harrison England ii. xxii. [xvi.] (1877) i. 337 When our houses were builded of willow, then had we oken men. 1887G. Meredith Ballads & P. 23 And lo, the man of oaken head, He fled his land.
†2. Of, pertaining to, or forming part of the oak. Obs. or arch. (replaced by ‘oak’ used attrib.).
a1450Fysshynge w. Angle (1883) 29 The bayte on þe slothorn & on the oken leyf. 1544T. Phaer Regim. Lyfe (1553) H vj b, The water of oken buddes..dronken in redde wine. 1561Hollybush Hom. Apoth. 2 Take leaves of oken tre. 1579Langham Gard. Health (1633) 528 A good handfull of oken barke. 1669Worlidge Syst. Agric. (1681) 90 The Acorns, or Oaken-Mast. 1691T. H[ale] Acc. New Invent. p. xviii, Oaken Trees..and..Oaken Timber. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. i. 200 Jove..shook from Oaken Leaves the liquid Gold. 1804J. Grahame Sabbath 245 Massy oaken trunks Half-buried lie.
3. Formed of oak leaves or twigs. arch.
1605Shakes. Cor. ii. i. 188 Menenius, hee comes the third time home with the Oaken Garland. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. i. 480 Let the lab'ring Hind With Oaken Wreaths his hollow Temples bind. 1762Falconer Shipwr. i. 879 Around her head an oaken wreath was seen. 1880C. R. Markham Peruv. Bark 76 A Knight of the Netherlands Lion, and Commander of the Order of the Oaken Crown.
4. Consisting of oak trees. arch. and poetic.
a1638Mede Wks. (1672) 65 How this..Oaken-holt of Sichem is said here in my Text to have been in,..or by, the Sanctuary of the Lord. 1702C. Mather Magn. Chr. iv. i. (1852) 16 The Druids..chose oaken retirements for their studies. 1832Tennyson Eleänore 10 With breezes from our oaken glades. 1881Rossetti Ballads & Sonn. 30 Like the struck fawn in the oakenshaw. 1903A. E. Housman ‘The Oracles’ in Venture I. 39 When winds were in the oakenshaws.
5. Comb., as oaken-beamed, oaken-panelled adjs.; oaken-pin, a name for a hard kind of apple; oaken-tenant: see quot. 1619.
1619J. Sempill Sacrilege Handl. 82 Leui was vnder the Law, as a tenent at will, remoueable: Melchisedec, and Christs Ministery, as Freeholders: Oaken-tenants. 1707–12Mortimer Husb. (J.), Oakenpin, so called from its hardness, is a lasting fruit. 1741Compl. Fam.-Piece ii. iii. 377 Apples [June] Oaken Pin,..Golden Russet. 1863Hawthorne Our Old Home (1879) 215 Vast college-halls, high-windowed, oaken-panelled. 1900Westm. Gaz. 24 Feb. 2/1 The low⁓ceiled, oaken-beamed parlour. |
