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† ˈax-tree Obs. exc. dial.
Forms: 3 axtreo, 4 exetree, 4–6 extre, 4–7 axtre, 5 axetre, 6–7 axtree, axe-tree, 6– (Sc.) extree, aixtree.
[f. ax n. + tree, in its sense of beam; repr. an OE. *eax-tréow. Cf. axle-tree from ON.]
1. The axle-tree of a wheel. (Still dial.)
a1230Juliana 56 Þat axtreo stod istraht..in te twa stanene postles. 1388Wyclif Ecclus. xxxiii. 5 An extre able to turne aboute [1611 a rolling axeltree]. c1440Promp. Parv. 145 Exultre, or ex tre. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 399/2 The one whele..fyl of fro the axtre. 1566in Invent. (1815) 166 (Jam.) Twa gross culverinis..mountit upoun their stokis, quheillis, and aixtreis. 1573Cooper Thesaur., Axis, an extree. 1617Janua Ling. 813 The axe tree..broken in the cart rut. 1675Hobbes Odyss. 80 They mount into the chariot..The axtree groaned under them. Mod. Sc. The wheels cam off the aixtree.
†2. = axle. Obs.
1659J. Leak Water-wks. 10 If two Wheels are equal..and there be unequal Weights fastened to their Ax-trees.
†3. = axis. Obs.
1430Lydg. Chron. Troy i. iii, The sterres..Whiche the axtree rounde aboute gone. 1551Recorde Pathw. Knowl. i. Def., A right line drawen crosse these figures..called an axe lyne, or axtre. 1603Drayton Bar. Warres vi. v, Two stedfast Poles, Twixt which this All doth on the Axtree move. 1657Wright in Phil. Trans. LIII. 76 Two equal equidistant circles that have one common axtree. |