| 单词 | schoolmarm tree |
| 释义 | > as lemmasschoolmarm tree 2. North American slang (chiefly Forestry). A tree with a forked trunk. Also more fully schoolmarm tree. ΚΠ 1912 Proc. Soc. Amer. Foresters 7 192 There are in almost every stand a certain number of injured or somewhat defective trees, such as ‘school-marms’, broken or bushy-topped trees, wind-shaken or lightning-cracked trees. 1939 H. O'Hagan Tay John 217 It was a pine. Long ago its trunk had been broken off by a slide or by the wind. Two stout branches had grown up instead, lightly tufted, to form a crotch. It was what the men there call a ‘school-marm tree’. 1958 Scope Weekly 22 Oct. 7/1 The same situation may occur in felling a ‘schoolma'am’ which is essentially a forked tree, having two main trunks. 2009 G. Bowering in M. Leiren-Young Green Chain i. 7 You know what a School Marm is?.. It starts off with one trunk and breaks off to two trunks and goes up like a big letter Y. < as lemmas |
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