† prick treen.
Obsolete. rare.
Any of several trees whose wood was formerly used for making skewers: (a) = prickwood n. 3; (b) (in full butcher's prick tree) alder buckthorn, Frangula alnus; (c) (in full butcher's prick tree) = prickwood n. 1.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > cornus (dogwood and allies) > [noun]
gaiterc1000
dog-tree1548
cornel1551
dogberry1551
prick tree1551
hound's-berry1578
hound's-tree1578
prick-timber tree1578
dwarf honeysuckle1597
dogwood1598
sanguine-rod1601
prickwood1691
bloody twig1759
rose willow1798
red osier1807
swamp dogwood1817
stone-berry?1838
bunch-berry1845
cornus1846
silky cornel1848
silky dogwood1900
pagoda tree1978
the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > birch and allies > [noun] > alder and allies
aldereOE
alderna1325
prick tree1551
black alder1578
aln1589
sporkenwood1599
alder1648
alder buckthorn?1742
orl1747
alder1755
arn1791
Turkey alder1822
Oregon alder1842
berry alder1863
tag alder1891
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > cultivated or ornamental trees and shrubs > [noun] > spindle-tree(s)
prickwood1516
spindle-tree1548
prick-timber1578
prickle tree1607
prick tree1671
spindle1712
spindlekin1714
euonymus1767
skewer wood1782
gaiter1796
dogwood1838
spindle-trees1846
louse-berry1866
skewer tree1894
1551 W. Turner New Herball sig. M jv Sume because bucheres vse to make prykkes of it call it [sc. cornel] pryke tree.
1597 J. Gerard Herball iii. 1286 Alnus nigra, siue frangula..is called in English Aller tree, and of diuers Butchers Pricke tree.
1671 S. Skinner & T. Henshaw Etymologicon Botanicum in Etymologicon Linguæ Anglicanæ Butchers Prick tree, Euonymus.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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