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Brown ash

noun

Vigorous spreading North American tree having dark brown heavy wood; leaves turn gold in autumn. Synonyms: basket ash, black ash, Fraxinus nigra, hoop ash.

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... (occasionally narrow), oval in shape, see Fig. 148, tyloses present. Color brown to white, sometimes with reddish tinge to late wood. Odorless and tasteless. There are several species of ash that are classed as white ash and one that is called black or brown ash. ...

— Studies of Trees • Jacob Joshua Levison

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... of birch bark could be bottomed and served for baskets, or for potash cans, while capital feed-boxes could be made in the same way of sections cut from a hollow hemlock. Elm rind and portions of brown ash butts were natural materials for chair-seats and baskets, as were flags for door-mats. Forked branches made geese and hog yokes. Hogs that ran at large had to wear yokes. It was ordered that these yokes should measure as long as twice and a half times the depth of the neck, while the ...

— Home Life in Colonial Days • Alice Morse Earle

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