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ˈwalnut-tree
1. The tree that bears walnuts.
a1400Nominale (Skeat) 657 Tremuler nuger et grosiler, Aspe walnotetre and theuthorne. 1483Cath. Angl. 407/1 Walnott tree, auellanus. 1579Spenser Sheph. Cal. Dec. 34 How haue I wearied with many a stroke, The stately Walnut tree, the while the rest Vnder the tree fell all for nuts at strife. 1697W. Dampier Voy. I. xiv. 392 The Wild Nutmeg⁓tree is as big as a Walnut-tree; but it does not spread so much. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) I. 282 Under it is found a soft oozy earth, made up of vegetables; and at twenty-six feet depth, large trees entire, such as walnut-trees. 1890Hardwicke's Sci.-Gossip XXVI. 115 At the last meeting of the Entomological Society, Mr. W. L. Distant exhibited..a branch of a walnut-tree on which was a mass of eggs laid by a butterfly belonging to the Lycænidæ.
Proverb.1550Coverdale Spir. Perle xii. 102 A walnut tree y⊇ more it is beaten, the better it is, & not the worsse. Euen so man thorow many stripes and much aduersity turneth from il and waxeth good.
b. attrib.
1536MS. Rawl. D. 780 lf. 66, xxiiijti loodes of walnottry and hasshen tymbre. Ibid. lf. 69 b, Wallnottry Tymbre haysshen tymbre and ellym tymbre. 1705Lond. Gaz. No. 4097/4, 10 Dozen of Walnut-Tree Planks. 1738Chambers Cycl. s.v. Ulcer, This is no more than a decoction of walnut-tree-leaves in water, with a little sugar. 1800Asiatic Ann. Reg. 74 note, The Salmoni, or Salemoeli tree,..affords a most beautiful wood; it resembles walnut-tree wood in colour. 1886C. E. Pascoe Lond. To-day (ed. 3) 16 The pleasant walnut-tree walks..of his [Addison's] time.
†2. The wood of this tree. = walnut1 3. Obs.
1587B.N.C. (Oxf.) Docum., Inventory A2. 31 A bedsteed of wallnuttrye, in Ladies' chamber. 1617Moryson Itin. i. 162 The seates of the Chauncell are of Walnut-tree curiously carved. 1756Mrs. P. L. Powys Passages fr. Diaries (1899) 8 The chimney-pieces, tables, &c. are of green marble from Sweden; all the doors solid walnut-tree, off the estate. 1816Scott Old Mort. xl, A grey doublet and cloak..which Mrs. Wilson produced from a chest of walnut-tree.
†b. attrib. or adj. Made of walnut.
1687Lond. Gaz. No. 2231/4 A drawing Walnut-Tree Box, with two Drawers in it,..to put Mathematical Instruments in. 1702Ibid. No. 3806/8 A Large Parcel of French Walnutt-Tree Venears will be exposed to Sale..on Thursday. 1716Ibid. No. 5402/4 A Fowling-Piece with a Walnut-tree Stock. 1725Bradley's Family Dict. s.v. Candle, Roll them upon a Wallnut-tree Table. a1841T. Hook Ned Musgrave i, Sitting in a walnut-tree arm-chair. 1907Verney Mem. I. 11 Chairs with walnut-tree frames. |