† ˈprick-timber Obs.
[See prick n. 14.]
a. The Spindle-tree: = prickwood a. b. The Dogwood: = prickwood b; also prick-timber tree.
| a. 1578 Lyte Dodoens vi. lxxix. 760 This plant..some call..in Englishe, Spindeltree, and Pricke Timber: bycause the timber of this tree serueth very well to the making both of Prickes and Spindelles. a 1697 Aubrey Nat. Hist. Wilts. (1847) 56 The butchers doe make skewers of it, because it doth not taint the meate as other wood will doe: from whence it hath the name of prick-timber. 1753 Chambers Cycl. Supp. App., Prick-timber, a name sometimes given to the Euonymus, or spindle-tree. |
| b. 1578 Lyte Dodoens vi. li. 726 The wilde Cornell tree, is called..in Englishe..Dogge berie tree, and the Pricke timber tree, bycause Butchers vse to make prickes of it. 1611 Cotgr., Cornillier femelle, Hounds-tree, Dog-berrie tree, Prick-tymber tree. |