The hackberry tree is of middle size, attaining from 60 to 80 ft.
The fruit of either of two trees having sweetish berries: (a) An Old World hackberry (Celtis australis).
Such abundance of game relieved the monotony of the march to Hackberry Creek, but still, both men and animals were considerably exhausted by their long tramp, for we made over thirty miles that day.
In this generally preferred environment the desert hackberry (Celtis pallida) is one of the most conspicuous shrubs; clumps of this species are commonly accompanied by kangaroo rat mounds.
Many's the time Grandma would send me to the "branch" (creek) to bring her a small hackberry limb for a tooth brush.
She would take a hackberry twig about twice as big and twice as long as a wooden match and chew on one end until it "frazzled" out into a bristle.
Enemies: The hackberry is usually free from disease, though often its leaves are covered with insect galls.
He was lying down by the side of the campfire when an owl flew over into some hackberry trees close by and started hooting.
Let's set down a minute on that air hackberry log.
THE rough-leaved hackberry is found sparsely throughout the State.
While in camp on Hackberry I met with an experience which rarely ever happened to me--I got completely lost, so badly that I had no idea of direction.
Along in May, 1872, we moved our camp from Hackberry to a point north of the Kansas Pacific railroad.
Pile of more than a dozen scats not individually separable, nearly all consisted mainly or entirely of hackberry fruits estimated at 2000; other contents chiefly crabapple and corn.
Hackberry fruit (Celtis occidentalis) was second to grape in importance and large numbers of scats were found to be composed mainly or entirely of the skins and seeds of this fruit.
Hackberry in all, making up all of two and most of the third; copperhead (scales of medium-sized adult) making up a fraction of the third scat.
Now I'll go in and learn Mr. and Mrs. Hackberry how to spend the first night o' their wedded lives.
Mrs. Bolster and Hackberry off to one side, while the Captain placed the remainder of the prisoners in the center of his company and started back to camp with them.
No you haint," she replied with a still more emphatic jounce that made Hackberry use all the breath left him to groan.
Stand up," said Shorty, approaching Hackberry with the bright crimson rod in his hand.
Hackberry swallowed his portion at a thirsty gulp and sat down on the door-sill to let it do its invigorating work.
Again the 'Squire commanded them to join hands, and after mumbling over the fateful words, pronounced Thomas Jefferson Hackberry and Mrs. Sophronia Bolster man and wife.
How much of each of the emotions of jealousy, disappointment, hurt vanity, and rebel antagonism went into the howl that Mr. Jeff Hackberry set up at this announcement will never be known.
The guerrillas seemed rather more fearful than otherwise to see him, but met him with manners that were ranged from respectful by Jeff Hackberry to absolute servility by the others.
With an air of glad relief, Hackberry sprang up and put out his hand.
I'd a heap ruther marry Jeff Hackberry to make sure o' havin' him shot than to save him from shootin'.
The other boys, after a severe struggle, had caught Mrs. Bolster-Hackberry and put her back in the cabin.
The house was surrounded by a thicket of fragrant sumac, dogwood, and hackberry saplings.
However, a few dry but still green hackberry leaves were stored in the crevice beneath the boulder.
A hackberry sapling one inch in stem diameter grew through the middle of the house, providing further support.
But Matt told Hackberry he expected to reach Sykestown by train.
Matt tore off the end of the envelope, and drew out a sheet of paper of the same color as that which Hackberry had already shown him.
Hackberry rode off along the road in the direction of the town of Lallie, which lay on his homeward route.
Hackberry dug up a three-cornered scrap of brown paper from the depths of his pocket, shook some loose tobacco out of it, and handed it to Matt.
Matt believed, then, that Hackberry had told the truth and that the letter was genuine.
It seemed as though he was bound to lose at least two days before he could get to Sykestown, and that it might have been better, after all, if he had gone with Hackberry on horseback.
Hackberry was not looking at Matt, but had centred his attention on Siwash.
As he finished, Hackberry dug up the letter from another pocket.
The leaves generally have smooth margins, and that would differentiate the tree from the hackberry were it not that sometimes the sugarberry has serrate leaves.
The hackberry has been planted to a small extent as a street tree in the southern towns, but it is not as popular as the elms and oaks.
It crosses the Rio Grande into Mexico, appearing to outstrip the hackberry in that direction.
The hackberry belongs to the elm family, being of the same relation as the planertree.
Then, where the pear was thinner, he caught sight of the grass roof of the /jacal/ and the hackberry tree on the edge of the arroyo.
He brought some mysterious bags and tin boxes from the grub wagon and set them in the shade of the hackberry where I lay reclined.
His guitar hung by its buckskin string to a hackberry limb, moaning as the gulf breeze blew across its masterless strings.
His ranch was a little two-room box house in a grove of hackberry trees in the lonesomest part of the sheep country.
That evening Sam and old man Ellison dragged their chairs out under the hackberry trees.
On a cool, canvas-covered cot in the shade of the hackberry trees Sam Galloway passed the greater part of his time.
They be gone to Hackberry Dean,' said an old man, breaking stones by the roadside.
Mr. Jogglebury Crowdey, staring about with anything but the quickness that marked his movements when he dived into Hackberry Dean.
Having found suitable shelter, they remain through the winter to come forth early the following spring and feed upon the developing leaves of the hackberry trees.
A little later they lay eggs upon the under side of the hackberry leaves, commonly one in a place but sometimes several side by side.
These butterflies lay eggs in turn on the hackberry leaves, the eggs soon hatching into small caterpillars which according to Riley's observations are less active than those of the earlier brood.
The principal points in the life-history of the species may be outlined as follows: some time in July the eggs are laid on the leaves of hackberry in dense clusters, each of which may contain from two hundred to five hundred eggs.
These trees, with the hackberry trees across the river and numerous stramonium bushes in full blossom, composed the chief vegetation of this extraordinary locality.
There was the same general barrenness: only a few hackberry trees, willows, and a cottonwood or two along the margin of the river made up the vegetation.
No sooner were we past this one than we engaged in a similar battle with another of the same nature, and below it we stopped for dinner, amidst some huge boulders under a hackberry tree, near another roarer.
Between the two rivers was another footing of about two acres, bearing several hackberry trees, and it was on this bank up the Grand River side that the first party camped.
Young Osage orange (Maclura pomifera), American elm, and hackberry are common trees encroaching on the grasslands.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hackberry" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
