pine-tree
= pine n.2 1.
| c 1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 216 Pintreowes þa grenan twigu ufeweard ᵹegnid. a 1300 Cursor M. 6326 Þar sagh he stand Wexen o cipres, a wand;..An-oþer he sagh o cedre tre;..O pine tre þe thrid he fand. 1483 Cath. Angl. 279/2 A Pyne tre (A. A Pyne Appyltre), pinus. c 1489 Caxton Sonnes of Aymon xvii. 390 He toke on his waye for to goo to the pintre of mountalban. 1562 Turner Herbal ii. 87 The Pyne tre bryngeth furth very litle rosin. 1710 Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) VI. 669 The bill for preserving white pyne trees in our plantations for ships masts. 1837 W. Irving Capt. Bonneville II. 168 Barricaded by fallen pine-trees and tremendous precipices. |
b. attrib., as pine-tree bole, etc.; pine-tree money, name for the silver coins (shilling, six-pence, and threepence) bearing the figure of a pine-tree, struck in Massachusetts in the latter half of the 17th century, being the first money coined in a British colony; pine-tree State, Maine, U.S., so called from its extensive pine-forests.
| a 1848 Clough Early Poems xvi. 88 The pine-tree boles are dimmer, And the stars bedimmed above. 1864 Webster Dict., Names Fiction, Pine-Tree State. 1870 Eng. Mechanic 7 Jan. 416/1 These coins, now very rare.., are called ‘Pine Tree Money’. 1888 Boston Transcript (Farmer), The good old Pine-tree State is pretty well represented in this locality. 1893 E. Custer Tenting 88 The most venomous of snakes, called the pine-tree rattlesnake. 1893 Goldw. Smith United States 28 She [Massachusetts] coined her own money, the pine-tree shilling. 1896 Peterson's Mag. (U.S.) VI. 288/2 These vessels all sailed under the pine-tree flag. This flag was of white bunting, on which was painted a green pine-tree, and upon the reverse..: ‘Appeal to Heaven’. |