ˈhobble-bush
The North American Wayfaring-tree, Viburnum lantanoides, a small shrub with cymes of white flowers and purple berries.
| 1842 Loudon Encycl. Trees & Shrubs 520. 1858 Thoreau Maine W. ii. (1894) 116 The mountain-ash was now very handsome, as also the wayfarer's-tree or hobble-bush, with its ripe purple berries mixed with red. |