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CIDE DICTIONARY
supplantation | supplanter | supplanting | supple | supple-chapped | supple-jack | supplejack | supplely | supplement | supplemental | supplementary

supple-jack

CIDE DICTIONARY

supple-jackn. 
     A climbing shrub (Berchemia volubilus) of the Southern United States, having a tough and pliable stem.  [1913 Webster]
    " This name is given to various plants of similar habit in different British colonies."  [1913 Webster]
    "He was in form and spirit like a supple-jack, . . . yielding, but tough; though he bent, he never broke."  [1913 Webster]

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