Definition of "water-oak" [water-oak]

• See oak. (noun)
• In botany, an oak, Quercus aquatica, of the southern United States, most common and best developed along streams in the eastern Gulf States. Its wood is heavy, hard, and coarse-grained, and does not appear to be used except for fuel. Also duck-, possum-, or punk-oak. (noun)
• Same as pin-oak. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "There was no sound abroad except the hooting of an old owl in the top of a water-oak, and the everlasting voice of the sea, that was not uplifted at that soft hour."
• "Bill was eventually discovered seated on a cushion-covered nail keg beneath a large water-oak at the rear of the building."
• "As we walk up from the station through, first a wood of water-oak, sweet-gum and hickory, then an open glade with scattering persimmon trees upon it, and lastly, a fine park of postoaks draped with Spanish moss, we approach the old southern "Mansion," which was the only building of any account upon the ground when the Association purchased it in 1869, and which is still the handsomest one."