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Supple-Jack
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828
Part of speech: noun (n.)
1. A climbing shrub (Berchemia volubilus) of the Southern United States, having a tough and pliable stem.
2. A somewhat similar tropical American plant (Paullinia Curassavica); also, a walking stick made from its stem. He was in form and spirit like a supple-jack, . . . yielding, but tough; though he bent, he never broke. W. Irving.