"tree" Definition

Definitions for the word "tree" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. n.
1 perennial plant with a woody self-supporting main stem or trunk and usu. Unbranched for some distance above the ground. 2 piece or frame of wood etc. For various purposes (shoe-tree). 3 = *family tree. v. (trees; treed) force to take refuge in a tree.
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
2. slang
“up a TREE,” in temporary difficulties,—out of the way. American expression, derived from racoon or bear-hunting. When Bruin is TREED, or is forced up a TREE by the dogs, it means that then the tug of war begins. _See_ ’COON. Hence when an opponent is fairly run to bay, and can by no evasion get off, he is said to be TREED. These expressions originated with Colonel Crockett, of backwoods celebrity. In Scotland the phrase is “up a close,” _i.e._, up a passage with no outlet, a _cul-de-sac_, therefore suggestive of an unpleasant predicament.
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864

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