treed, ppl. a.
(triːd)
[f. tree n. or v. + -ed.]
1. Planted or covered with trees; wooded.
| 1860 All Year Round No. 43. 403 Treed slopes high above the sea. 1909 Blackw. Mag. May 677/1 A little treed enclosure. |
2. Driven to take refuge in a tree, as a hunted animal, or a man pursued by wild beasts.
| 1891 Tablet 25 Apr. 660 Like a tree'd squirrel. 1894 Times 30 Mar. 14/1 He was alone and treed on a bitter cold night, with the lions..regularly patrolling the environs. 1902 Outing (U.S.) June 298/1 Old hunters throw the light of a torch upon a treed raccoon. |
3. Decorated with a tree-like pattern: treed calf = tree-calf (tree n. 10 c).
| 1892 J. H. Badley in Pall Mall G. 5 Oct. 2/1 A copy of..‘Self-made Men’ in treed calf. |