wickyn.
/ˈwɪki/ local.
1. The mountain-ash or rowan-tree: = quicken n.1; also wickeyberry tree.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > berry-bush or -tree > [noun] > mountain ash
quick treeeOE
wycheOE
quickena1400
foldc1420
rowan-tree1483
quickbeam?1537
wild ash1552
field ash1578
mountain ash1597
quicken berry1597
whitten1633
witchen1664
quickenberry tree1671
wicky1681
rowan1751
narrow-leaved service tree1793
sorb1796
bastard mountain ash1800
roundwood1846
fowler's service tree1859
1681 T. Langford Plain Instr. Fruit-trees xiii. 118 Graff the Service on the Wickey-berry-tree, or the White-thorn.
1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words II Wicky, same as Wicken-tree.
2. U.S. The sheep-laurel, Kalmia angustifolia, and an allied species, K. hirsuta.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > bay-tree and allies > [noun] > kalmia or American laurel
mountain laurel1759
ivy-tree1760
kalmia1765
lambkill1790
sheep-poison1790
sheep-laurel1810
calico-bush1814
wicky1901
sheep-kill1968
1804 A. F. M. Willich Domest. Encycl. I. 53/1 The plant [sc. Andromeda] is there [i.e. in the southern states] called ‘wickie’.
1901 C. T. Mohr Plant Life Alabama 654 Wicky..Louisianian area..Low sandy pine barrens.
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