BRANCH
ADJECTIVES
1656 ► SARMENTITIOUS belonging to branches or twigs
1789 ► SCROGGY having rough, stunted branches or bushes; abounding in underwood → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1819 ► RAMIFEROUS bearing branches
NOUNS
..950 ► YARD a straight slender branch of a tree; a twig, a stick → obs.
1250 ► LUG the branch or limb of a tree → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1300 ► TINE a small branch or twig of a tree; the stalk of a fruit → obs.
1300 ► WAND a slender branch or twig → obs. exc. Eng. dial. obs.
1374 ► TWIST a twig, a branch → obs.
1398 ► ARM a branch of a tree, esp. a main branch
1420 ► RAMMEL small, crooked, or rubbishy branches, esp. from trees which have been felled and trimmed → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1578 ► RAME a branch of a tree or shrub
1625 ► SKEG the stump of a branch → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1652 ► RAMELET a small branch, a twig → obs.
1656 ► RAMAGE the collective branches of a tree or trees → arch.
1677 ► RAMUSCLE a small branch → obs.
1677 ► SCROG a stunted or crooked branch, tree, or shrub; underwood, ‘scrub’ → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1715 ► TANG a branch or root of a tree → chiefly Eng. dial.
1758 ► SPROUT a branch → US
1825 ► QUIBOW the branch of a tree; a bough → Sc.
1847 ► SPRANG a shoot or branch
1859 ► BEUGH a branch or bough of a tree → Eng. dial.
1863 ► DAG a small projecting stump of a branch → Eng. dial.
1872 ► LEG-WOOD large branches cut from trees → Eng. dial.
1873 ► STRIPPAGE branches stripped from trees
1875 ► BANGLE the cut branch of a tree, the larger piece of wood in a faggot → Eng. dial.
1882 ► SCOW a small branch or twig → Sc.
1899 ► WIDOW-MAKER a branch or tree that has fallen on or is likely to fall on or snap back at a person; a dangerous hanging limb → Amer. dial.
1900 ► FANG a branch of a tree → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1904 ► SCRAG a crooked, forked branch of a tree; a broken bough → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1904 ► SCRATCH the natural fork of a branch or tree; a pole with a natural fork at the end of it → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 ► PRONG a twig, branch, or fork of a tree → Amer. dial.
1910 ► BRANCHLING a small branch
1914 ► RAE a small branch of a tree → Sc.
1967 ► OFF-FALL a separate branch, an offshoot → Amer. dial.
1988 ► COATHANGER a horizontal branch that needs to be removed from trees destined for timber → NZ sl.
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