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ˈpear-tree
Forms: see pear n. and tree.
1. The tree which produces pears: see pear n. 2.
a1300Cursor M. 37 Of gode pertre coms god peres. 1469Bury Wills (Camden) 46 The frute of the seid pertre and of an appultre. 1579Spenser Sheph. Cal. Mar. 111 Crowes..That in our Peeretree haunted. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. iv. 214 He knew..For Fruit the grafted Pear-tree to dispose. 1866Treas. Bot. 945 The Common Pear-tree, Pyrus communis... The branches are thorny... Under cultivation the thorns disappear.
2. The wood of this tree; pear-wood.
1669Sturmy Mariner's Mag. ii. xvi. 92 Smooth dry Box Wood or Pear-tree. c1850Rudim. Navig. (Weale) 134 Pieces of pear-tree or box.
3. attrib. and Comb.
c1420Pallad. on Husb. iii. 701 The pertre plaunte is sette in places colde. 1633T. James Voy. Q, Old seasoned Peare⁓tree-wood. |