释义 |
borral-tree Sc. rare—1. Meaning uncertain; perhaps ‘hollowtree’: Jamieson suggests that Hogg may have meant bour tree; on which conjecture the word has since been given in dictionaries and books on botany as an actual name of the Elder.
1818Hogg Brownie I. 216 Round the hillock, on the lea, Round the auld borral tree, Or bourock by the burn-side. |