whitty dial.
(ˈhwɪtɪ)
Also 9 witty.
Usually whitty-tree = whitten-tree.
| a 1686 Aubrey Nat. Hist. Wilts (1847) 56 Whitty-tree, or wayfaring tree, is rare in this country. 1833 E. Lees Affin. Plants (1834) 63 The true-service or sorb-tree... This tree..is called the whitty or witten pear-tree, its fruit being exactly similar to very small pears. 1847 Halliwell, Whitty-tree, the mountain ash. West. Ibid., Witty (L), the mountain ash. Salop. 1868 Witty [see whitten]. |