ˈmaple tree
= maple 1.
| 770 in Birch Cart. Sax. (1885) I. 290 Of þam syrf treowe in {thbar} ruᵹ' mapel treow in forweard werdune. c 1425 Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 646/19 Hec ascer, mapulletre. 1579 Lyly Euphues (Arb.) 100 Is not..dunge [taken] out of the Maple tree by the Scorpion? 1660 Early Rec. Warwick, Rhode Island (1926) 322 Bounded by a mapell tree on the Northwest corner. 1700 Early Rec. Providence, Rhode Island (1893) IV. 139 The maple tree is the north east Corner bound. 1810 F. A. Michaux Hist. Arbres Forestiers de l'Amérique Septentrionale I. 28 Red flowering maple,..Swamp maple,..Soft maple..[ou] Maple tree..dans Pensylvanie, la Virginia, et l'Ohio. 1859 Geo. Eliot A. Bede ii, As Dinah walked..towards the cart under the maple-tree. 1867 J. N. Edwards Shelby xx. 337 To send the blood coursing through his veins like the sap in the maple-trees. 1974 Country Life 3–10 Jan. 28/1 One of the earliest..signs that the winter freeze is coming to an end is the sight of buckets hanging on the trunks of maple trees. |