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单词 borral-tree
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borral-treen.

Origin: Perhaps a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: bourtree n.
Etymology: Perhaps a folk-etymological alteration of bourtree n., after borel n. (compare forms at that entry), because the easily hollowed out stems of the elder were favoured by boys for pea-shooters.
Scottish. rare.
Meaning uncertain; perhaps ‘hollowtree’: Jamieson suggests that Hogg may have meant bourtree n.; on which conjecture the word has since been given in dictionaries and books on botany as an actual name of the Elder.
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1818 J. Hogg Brownie of Bodsbeck I. 216 Round the hillock, on the lea, Round the auld borral tree, Or bourock by the burn side.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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