Read full poem →Over the yawning chimney hangs the fog. Drip--hiss--drip--hiss--
fall the raindrops on the oaken log which burns, and steams,
and smokes the ceiling beams. Drip--hiss--the rain never stops.
Dictionary Entry
Made from the wood of the oak tree. Also in metaphorical uses, suggesting robustness.
Origin
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Common Phrases
door oakenbucket oakentable oakenchair oakendoors oakenchest oakenoaken oldoaken heavy
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Poetry examples for “oaken”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →_Lucifer._ Aim your lightnings
At the oaken,
Massive, iron-studded portals!
Read full poem →Winter set his wind to blowing.
Oaken leaves of pale or brown,
Hickory leaves of sere,
Read full poem →For know, by lot from Jove, I am the Power
Of this fair wood, and live in oaken bower, 45
To nurse the saplings tall, and curl the grove
Read full poem →Or on the mountain-crest sublime,
Or down the oaken glade,
O what have I to do with time?
Read full poem →For she needs not her sad beauty,
To the scented oaken press.
Read full poem →Beneath its shade, the place of state,
On oaken settle Marmion sate,
And viewed around the blazing hearth