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oaken

British pronunciation/ˈə‍ʊkən/
American pronunciation/ˈoʊkən/
1

consisting of or made of wood of the oak tree

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1There are three large oaken tables within the room, one in each of the west, north and east wings of the room.
2Pagan Slavs saw their Gods as tied intrinsically with the untamed wilderness in which they lived, and built their shrines in Oaken groves.
3Religion across the realm was a diverse spectrum: The Pagan Slavs continued to worship Perun and Volos in their oaken groves, while the Scandinavian elites retained aspects of their own pantheons of Thor, Odin and Loki.
4Items such as comb fragments, pieces of iron, cooking utensils, and chisels, chess pieces, ship rivets, carpenters planes, and oaken ship fragments have been found in several Inuit sites far beyond the traditional range of Norse colonization.
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