crab tree

noun

1. a tree bearing crab apples.

Word History and Origins

Origin of crab tree¹

Middle English word dating back to 1300–50

Example Sentences

By Saturday morning a normally tranquil stream known as Crab Tree Swamp was flowing fast and was just a foot from engulfing a bridge which provides north-south access to Conway.

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A wool rug on loan from Crab Tree Farm in Lake Bluff, Ill., is patterned with Celtic knots and images of pelicans, which according to legend, used their own blood to feed their young.

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As, for instance, "The lake was sounded out of a flat-bottomed boat, near the crab tree at the corner of the kitchen-garden,10 and was found to be a thousand feet nine inches deep, with a muddy bottom."

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"The forks of a thorn, or wild crab tree," says Mr. Wood, "are favourite places for the nest, which is composed of mosses, hair, wool and feathers, covered on the exterior with lichens and mosses so exactly resembling the bough on which the nest is placed that the eye is often deceived by its appearance."

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William Conway, of Crab Tree Row, Bethnall Green, is the person from whom the following etching was made.

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