In tough, unwedgeable, knotty strength, it is the oak of oaks, a magnificent tree.
在坚韧、不可楔入、多节的力量中, 它是橡树中的橡树, 一棵壮丽的树。
加州的群山(上)
The trunk was all knots and buttresses, gray like granite, and about as angular and irregular as the boulders on which it was growing—a type of steadfast, unwedgeable strength.
The mountain live oak, common here and a thousand feet or so higher, is like the live oak of Florida, not only in general appearance, foliage, bark, and wide-branching habit, but in its tough, knotty, unwedgeable wood.