1.   An elegant piece of equipment made of aluminum, brass and pecan or hickory wood, the Olympic torch suffered some serious abuse during the testing phase.

2.   He used hickory wood for its flexibility and toughness, and it must have taken hours of painstaking carving.

3.   It is made by simply burning hickory wood, condensing the resulting smoke, dissolving it in water and filtering it to remove impurities.

4.   These are rubbed with salt, and seasonings and hung in smokehouses for a prescribed time, where apple, oak and hickory wood are used.