| 释义 |
nursrow-tree
[f. dial. nurs-, nuss-, noss-row the harvest-shrew.]
A tree vulgarly supposed to be efficacious in curing swollen cattle, through having one or more shrew-mice confined in it.
1686Plot Staffordsh. 222 To make any tree..a Nursrow-tree, they catch one or more of these mice,..and having bored a hole.., they put the mice in [etc.]. |