the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > refuge or shelter > take or seek refuge [verb (intransitive)] > specific (3)
transitive. To surround with or enclose in a wood or trees; reflexive and intransitive to hide or take refuge in a wood. Obsolete.
intransitive. Of a fox or badger: to conceal oneself in an earth; to go to earth. Also figurative. Now rare.
intransitive. To climb up or perch upon a tree; esp. to take refuge in a tree from a hunter or pursuer.