TREE
ADJECTIVES
► ARBORICIDAL given to cutting down trees → 1866
► BASTARD of trees: female → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► BUSTLE-HEADED of a tree: stunted, misshapen → 1863 Eng. dial. obs.
► CACUMINOUS of a tree: having a pyramidal top → 1871
► DENDROPHIL tree-loving → 19C
► DOTED of a tree, timber, etc.: decayed inside, rotten, unsound → 1466
► DOTING of trees: decaying, rotten, esp. from age → 1593 obs.
► GURLIE ► GURLY of a tree: gnarled → 1837 Sc.
► LAPPED of a tree: having the top or branches broken off → 1951 Amer. dial.
► LIMBY having many limbs or branches → 1953 Amer. dial.
► MAIDEN of trees: unfelled, unlopped, allowed to grow naturally → 1877 Eng. dial.
► NEMOROUS full of woods, groves, or trees; woody → 1623
► POLLED cut back, lopped: said of a tree → 1587
► PUTATORY belonging to cutting, dressing, or pruning of trees → 1656 obs.
► RAGGED of fruit trees, etc.: covered with fruit; thickly laden → 1661 Eng. dial.
► RAMPICK of a tree or bough: partially decayed or dead; bare of leaves or twigs → 1593 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► RANDLE-PIK’D of a tree: having the upper branches dead → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SAVAGE of a plant or tree: wild, uncultivated → 1422 obs.
► SUBARBOREAL lying under a forest of trees → 1886
► SYLVAN consisting of or formed by woods or trees → 1594
► TANGED forked, as a tree → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
NOUNS
► ABLAQUEATION the breaking up or removal of the soil around the roots of trees; the laying bare of roots → c1420 obs.
► ABNODATION the act of cutting away knots from trees; a gardening term → 1678 obs.
► ALAMEDA a public park or walk lined with trees → 1824 Amer. dial.
► AXE-BREAKER any tree whose timber has a hard, close, or interlocking grain → 1981 Aust. colloq. (Bk.)
► BACKBREAKER a tree stump cut close to the ground → 1931 Amer. dial.
► BAFF-END the partly decayed or root end of a tree or log → 1898 Sc. (Bk.)
► BASTARD an ill-thriven tree or shrub → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► BATARDIER a plantation of young grafted trees intended to be transplanted into gardens → 1725 obs.
► BEAM a tree → 826 obs.
► BIFF the bough of a tree → 1884 Eng. dial.
► BIG ‘UNS large trees → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► BLACK-WOOD evergreen trees collectively → 1871 US
► BLOW-DOWN 1. a place encumbered with trees that have been blown down → 1895 US
2. a tree that has been uprooted and blown down by strong winds → 1996 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► BLUFF a clump or grove of trees growing in open country → 1796 Amer. dial.
► BOSQUE a forest; a dense growth of trees and underbrush; a clump of trees → 1771 Amer. dial.
► BUSH a clump of trees → 1856 NZ obs.
► BUTT the trunk of a felled tree; the thickest part of this → 1601
► CHIN CHOPPER a tree that splits in falling → 1969 Amer. dial.
► CHUNKINGS the stump of a tree left in the ground after the tree is cut down → 1880 Eng. dial.
► CLUTCH a clump of trees → 1929 Amer. dial.
► CROP the ‘head’ or top of a tree → a1300 obs.
► CROWNET a cluster of flowers; the leafy head of a tree → 1578 obs.
► CUMBER-GROUND anything utterly worthless and in people’s way; a useless tree → 1657
► DAG a small projecting stump of a tree → 1851 Eng. dial.
► DODDARD a tree missing its top branches through rot or decay
► DOTARD a tree that has lost its branches or upper trunk, esp. through age, damage, or decay → 1592
► DOTE decay or rot in a tree or timber → 1874
► DOTING a rotting, decay in timber → a1450 obs.
► DOTTEREL TREE a tree which had its upper trunk and branches cut back → a1568 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► DOWN TIMBER fallen trees brought down by wind, storms, or other natural agency → 1837 N. Amer.
► DRUNKEN FOREST in the permafrost area of northern Canada: trees tilted in many directions by natural forces and not held by their shallow root systems → 1957 Can.
► DRYAD a forest-tree, a denizen of the woods → 1823
► FAGGOT ► FAGOT a bundle of sticks, twigs, or small branches of trees bound together, for use as fuel → a1300
► FALL the roots and stumps of felled trees → 1785 obs.
► FALLAGE a felling or cutting down trees → 1788 hist.
► FANG a fork or branch of a tree → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► FATNESS of a tree: oiliness; juiciness → 1382 obs.
► FISHERMEN’S COAL bark from a tree → 1951 Amer. dial.
► GALL a fault, an imperfection; a defect in a tree → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► GARNITURE natural objects, as trees, etc., as ornaments of the landscape → 1684
► GREEN a tree, herb, or plant → 1300 obs.
► GREENHEW the green parts of trees in a wood or forest → 1598 obs.
► GUT-GOUGER a knot high on the trunk of a tree → 1963 Amer. logging usage
► HAG the stump of a tree left after felling → 1615 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► HAGSNARE the stump of a tree left after felling → 1796 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► HAT a small clump or ring of trees; any small irregular mass of trees → 1894 Eng. dial.
► HAUTBOY a lofty tree, as distinguished from shrubs or underwood → 1674 obs.
► HURST a grove of trees; a copse; a wood → 822
► ICKEN-BAUM an oak tree → 1859 sl.
► IMP a young shoot of a plant or tree; a sapling → c897 obs.
► JUNK TREE a tree that is not commercially valuable → 1957 US
► JUNKING the cutting of felled trees into lengths that can be moved and stacked → 1802 Amer. dial.
► KNUR ► KNURR a knot or hardened excrescence on the trunk of a tree → 1542
► LANCE a branch of a tree, a shoot → a1300 obs.
► LAP the top or branches of a tree, esp. a felled or fallen tree → 1851 Amer. dial.
► LAPWOOD the top or branches of a tree, esp. a felled or fallen tree → 1905 Amer. dial.
► LEAD the main shoot of a young tree → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► LEADER the main shoot of a plant or tree → 1890 Eng. dial.
► LOPPAGE the loppings from trees → 1683 obs.
► LUG a long stick or pole; the branch or limb of a tree → a1250 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► MAST a collective name for the fruit of the beech, oak, chestnut, and other forest trees, esp. as food for swine → 825
► MASTAGE the fruit of forest trees collectively → 1610 obs.
► MAY-TREE the hawthorn tree → 1899 Eng. dial.
► MOCK the stump of a tree with the root → 1851 Eng. dial.
► MOOT the stump left in the ground after a tree has been felled → 1875 Eng. dial.
► MOOT-END the roots of a tree → 1777 Eng. dial.
► MORMON BRAKES a tree tied behind a wagon to retard its speed downhill → 1945 US Western usage (Bk.)
► MOTTE a clump of trees → 1945 US Western usage (Bk.)
► MUMP a tree stump; a tree root; a large, gnarled piece of wood → 1777 Eng. dial.
► MUTI a tree → 1858 S. Afr., obs.
► NAKED-MEN old, decayed, leafless trees → 19C Eng. dial.
► PECKER POLE a small tree or sapling → 1945 US Western logging sl. (Bk.)
► POLDER a tree which has had its upper trunk and branches cut back, so as to produce new growth and a uniform shape → 1704
► POLLARD a tree which has had its upper trunk and branches cut back, so as to produce new growth and a uniform shape → 1588
► POLLINGER a pollarded tree → 1570 chiefly Eng. dial., obs.
► PRONG a twig, branch, or fork of a tree → 1905 Amer. dial.
► PUTATION the pruning or trimming of trees → 1440 obs.
► PUTTER a young tree → 1807 obs.
► QUEECH a small plantation of trees or bushes; a spinney → 1804 Eng. dial.
► QUERDOOD the small upper branches and loppings of trees, etc., cut into lengths and stacked for sale as firewood → Bk1905 Eng. dial.
► QUIBOW the branch of a tree; a bough → 1825 Sc.
► RAMAGE the collective branches of a tree or trees → 1656 arch.
► RAME a branch of a tree or shrub → 1578
► RAMPIKE a decaying or dead tree; a spiky stump or stem of a tree → 1865 Eng. & Amer. dial.
► RANPIKE an upright, dead tree trunk → 1969 Amer. dial
► RAWNER a dead bough on a tree → 19C Eng. dial.
► RAWN-PEG a dead bough on a tree → 19C Eng. dial.
► RAWNY a dead bough on a growing tree → 19C Eng. dial.
► RAWNY-BOUGH a dead bough on a growing tree → 19C Eng. dial.
► RIDS boughs of trees → 1904 Eng. dial. obs. (Bk.)
► RUNDLE a pollard tree → a1697 Eng. dial.
► RUNT an old or decayed tree stump → 1553 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► SAMPLARS young trees left in woods for timber → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SARMENT a twig; a cutting of a tree → 1398
► SAWYER a fallen tree, floating down stream → 1848 Ireland
► SCHOOLMA’AM ► SCHOOLMARM ► SCHOOL MOM a forked tree or log → 1930 Amer. dial.
► SCRAB a stunted or shrivelled tree or shrub → 1790 Sc.
► SCRABBLE a stunted tree or shrub; thorns and briers → 1904 Sc. & Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SCRAG 1. a crooked, forked branch of a tree; a broken bough → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
2. a stunted bush or tree; a standing dead tree → 1975 Amer. dial.
► SCRATCH the natural fork of a tree or branch; a pole with a natural fork at the end of it → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SCREECH CAT a high stump, usually from a windfall, which has splinters that whistle or sing in the wind → 1956 Amer. dial.
► SCROG a stunted or crooked tree, shrub, or branch; a stump of a tree-trunk; a thorn-bush; underwood, ‘scrub’ → 1677 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► SHANK the trunk of a tree → Sc.
► SHAW a small grove of trees → 1930 Amer. dial.
► SHIVES the needles of the juniper tree → 1913 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► SHRAG a twig; a branch lopped off; also, a bush or low tree → 1552 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► SILVICULTURE ► SYLVICULTURE the cultivation of woods or forests; the growing and tending of trees as a department of forestry → 1880
► SNAG a standing dead tree → 1901 Amer. dial.
► SPRING OF THE LEAF the time when trees begin to burst into leaf; springtime → 1538
► SPRING OF WOOD a copse or grove of young trees or plants → c1475 obs.
► SPRINGER the shoot of a tree or plant; a young tree growing naturally from the stump of an old one → 1615 obs.
► SPRIT a young shoot of a tree → 1622 obs.
► SPRONK the root or stump or a tree or a tooth → 1838 Eng. dial. obs.
► SPRUN a root of a tree → 1684 obs.
► SPURN one of the main roots of a tree; an outward- growing root → 1601 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► STADDLES clumps of trees → 1819 Amer.
► SUGAR BERTH a maple sugar grove → 1913 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► SYLVA the trees of a particular region or period collectively → 1846
► SYLVAGE woody growth, boscage, a mass of growing trees → a1774
► TAG a catkin of a tree → 1597 obs.
► TAGLET a catkin → 1698
► TAN-FLAWING the business of stripping the bark off trees → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► TANG a root or fang of a tooth; a root or branch of a tree → 1715 chiefly Eng. dial.
► TANNER a small root of a tree → 1905 Sc. & Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► TAPPIN ► TAUPIN the root of a tree → 1898 Sc.
► TERRIT a clump of trees → 1905 Eng. dial. obs. (Bk.)
► TILLER a young tree; a sapling; a stock-shoot rising from the stock or stool of a felled tree → 1664 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► TIMBER-FALL a mass of fallen trees → 1897
► TIMBERLING a young timber-tree; a sapling → 1787
► TINE a small branch or twig of a tree; the stalk of a fruit → 1300s obs.
► TOFT a small grove of trees → 1706 Eng. dial.
► TOLL a clump of trees → 1644 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► TOOTHPICK TIMBER small trees → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► TURB a group or clump of trees → 1618 obs.
► TWISSEL ► TWISTLE the part of a tree where the branches divide from the stock → 1847 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► UMERT a place shaded by trees → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► UNDER-LOUT n. anything weak or inferior to the rest; used esp. of animals and trees → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► VERGE a strip or belt of trees → 1825 Sc.
► WIDOW-MAKER a tree or branch that has fallen on or is likely to fall on or snap back at a person; a dangerous hanging limb → 1899 Amer. dial.
► WOLF TREE a larger tree that shades younger trees growing under it → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► YEAR each of the annual rings in the wood of a tree → 1708
NOUNS – PERSON
► ARBORATOR one who attends to the culture of trees → 1664 obs.
► DENDROPHIL a lover of trees → 1888
► HAGGER one who uses a hatchet; one employed to fell trees → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)
► HAGMAN one who gains his living by felling and selling wood; a woodcutter → 1827 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► INOCULATRIX a woman who performs the budding or grafting of trees → 1623 sl.
► POLLER a person who lops or polls trees → 1828 obs.
► PRIMER a person who prunes trees → 1611 obs.
► SCRIMATREE a boy who climbs trees; a truant, a ne’er-do-well → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SHRAGGER a tree-trimmer
► TWISTER one who prunes or clips trees → 1483 obs.
► WOODPECKER one who fells trees → 1905 Amer. dial., derogatory
PHRASES
► FLOGGING BUNIONS trimming branches off of felled trees → 1930 Amer. dial.
VERBS
► ABLAQUEATE to loosen or remove the soil round the roots of trees, so as to let their fibres spread out; a term of Roman husbandry → c1420 obs.
► ABNODATE to prune trees, etc. → 1721 obs.
► BEAR-CLIMB to shinny up a tree → 1965 Amer. dial.
► BEAR-HUG to shinny up a tree → 1965 Amer. dial.
► BEAR-LIFT to shinny up a tree → 1965 Amer. dial.
► BEAR-WALK to shinny up a tree → 1965 Amer. dial.
► BEAVER ► BEAVER DOWN to hack a tree down → 1942 Amer. loggers’ usage
► BOOSTER to boost, to help someone up into a tree → 1966 Amer. dial.
► CHINNY ► CHINNY UP to climb the trunk of a tree by holding on with the legs while pulling oneself up with the hands → 1966 Amer. dial.
► CROP to cut off or remove the ‘crop’ or head of a plant, tree, etc.; to lop off the branches of a tree → c1225
► DOTE of a tree, etc.: to decay, to rot → a1440 obs.
► GARNISH of trees: to cover a wall, etc. → 1693 obs.
► HAG to cut down trees, strip off, dry and stack the bark, saw up and sort the timber → 1848 Sc.
► JACKKNIFE to climb the trunk of a tree by holding on with your legs while you pull yourself up with your hands → 1966 Amer. dial.
► LAP to lop off branches of trees → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► LIMB to cut the branches from a tree; rarely, to prune → 1839 Amer. dial.
► MONKEY CLIMB to climb the trunk of a tree by holding on with your legs while you pull yourself up with your hands .,..1965 Amer. dial.
► MONKEY UP to climb the trunk of a tree by holding on with your legs while you pull yourself up with your hands .,..1965 Amer. dial.
► PALM to climb a tree or pole simply by the assistance of hands and feet; to swarm → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► POLL to cut off the top of a tree or plant; to top or head a tree a few feet from the ground so it throws out more branches; generally, to lop the branches of, to prune → a1449
► POLLARD to cut back the upper trunk and branches of a tree → 1670
► POLL-SHRED to cut back the upper trunk and branches of a tree → 1530 obs.
► PRIME to prune or trim a tree or shrub → 1565
► QUEEVE to twist; to bend slowly backwards and forwards as a tree-top → 1809 Eng. dial.
► RAREFY vb. to reduce the number of trees; to thin a wood → 1650 obs.
► REND to strip off bark → 1893 Eng. dial.
► RENE to strip off bark; to rind → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SHIMMY to climb the trunk of a tree by holding on with your legs while you pull yourself up with our hands → 1950 Amer. dial.
► SHIM UP to climb the trunk of a tree by holding on with your legs while you pull yourself up with our hands → 1950 Amer. dial.
► SHIN to climb the trunk of a tree by holding on with your legs while you pull yourself up with our hands → 1840 Amer. dial.
► SHIN UP to climb a tree by aid of hands and legs only → 1905 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► SKINNY UP to climb the trunk of a tree by holding on with your legs while you pull yourself up with your hands → 1965 Amer. dial.
► SKIN THE BARK to climb a tree → 1965 Amer. dial.
► SPURGE of a tree: to shoot or sprout → 1500 obs.
► STROPE to strip or denude a thing of its covering, esp. a tree of its bark, a fruit of its rind, a seed of its skin → 1527 obs.
► TENNEL ► TINNEL of trees: to die away → 19C Eng. dial. obs.
► TWIG to trim or prune a tree → 1570 obs.
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