| 单词 | bourtree-bush |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbourtree-bush The Elder-tree ( Sambucus nigra). attributive, as in bourtree-berry, bourtree-bush; bourtree-gun n. a popgun made of the wood of the Elder, after the pith has been removed. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > elder > [noun] eldera700 bourtreec1450 white umbrella1658 parsley-leaved elder1731 Judas tree1886 c1450 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 228 Hec sambucus, a burtre. 1561 J. Hollybush tr. H. Brunschwig Most Excellent Homish Apothecarye f. 25v The floures of Eldren or Bouretre. 1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 59v The wod..is very holow..lyke vnto elder or bourtre. 1597 W. Langham Garden of Health 214 Eldren, or Bourtree. 1691 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Words (ed. 2) 131 Bore-tree, elder-tree; from the great pith in the younger branches which Children commonly bore out to make potguns of them. 1786 R. Burns Poems 57 Rustling, thro' the boortries coman. 1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering III. xiv. 280 I was behind that bourtree bush at the very moment. 1821 A. Wheeler Westmorland Dial. (ed. 3) 73 Bortery-berry wine. 1878 S. Smiles Robert Dick iv. 29 The only tree that thrives..is the common bourtree or elder. < as lemmas |
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