big clapboard fro

[Dennis R. Preston]

Ed,

A fro is an adze; a big one (for spltting clapboard size chunks) is what's
meant here.

dInIs

Yuk-yuk. Cain't wait for the younguns to write in and ask what an adze is.



>In the short story 'Rain on Tanyard Hollow,' Jesse Stuart writes: 'Let
>long tongues of lightnin' cut through the darkness across the Hollow and
>split the biggest oaks in Tanyard Hollow from the tip-tops to their butts
>like you'd split them with a big clapboard fro.' What is a big clapboard
>fro?
>
>
>Edward Callary


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