Acorn
From LoveToKnow 1911
ACORN, the fruit of the oak-tree; a word also used, by analogy with the shape, in nautical language, for a piece of wood keeping the vane on the mast-head.
Acorn:
Turned ornament resembling an acorn. Acorns are common in Jacobean furniture as finials on chair posts and bedposts, as pendants and as the profile of leg turnings in Jacobean tables.
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Brass acorn-top andirons - Cedar Grave, Philadelphia
Fireplace - an opening at the base of a chimney, usually an open recess in a wall, in which a fire may be built
Illustration: Philip Smith House / College Club House ...
Oak Leaf Cluster - a United States military decoration consisting of bronze or silver oak leaves and acorns awarded to anyone who has won a given medal before
Victoria Cross - a British military decoration for gallantry ...
The pineapple, which was known as the welcome fruit was a popular model for finials but so were acorns and pinecones, and it is sometimes difficult to distinguish between them without careful scrutiny.
The Garrison Colonial is easily recognized by the second story overhang above the recessed first story. Carved drops in the shape of pineapples or acorns is a traditional ornamentation underneath the overhang.
 See also: Ornament, Architecture, House, Federal, Finial
  
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