crab tree

Historical Examples

• By-and-bye they rode under the crab-tree, but the seat was empty.

  Last Words

  Juliana Horatia Ewing

• If you find a crab-apple on a tree, you may be sure that the tree is a crab-tree.

  Mrs Whittelsey's Magazine for Mothers and Daughters

  Various

• Tis not the crab-tree faced World neither that makes mine sour.

  The Mermaid Series. Edited by H. Ellis. The best plays of the old dramatists. Thomas Dekker. Edited, with an introduction and notes by Ernest Rhys.

  Thomas Dekker

• Crab′-stick, a stick made out of the crab-tree; Crab′-tree, the tree that bears crab-apples.

  Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D)

  Various

• But to draw sense out of that boy was as hard as picking cherries off a crab-tree.

  Humorous Ghost Stories

  Dorothy Scarborough