treen

American  

[treen] / trin /

adjective

1. made entirely of wood.

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noun

1. treenware.

treen British  

/ ˈtriːən /

adjective

1. made of wood; wooden

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noun

1. another name for treenware

2. the art of making treenware

Etymology

Origin of treen

First recorded before 1000; Middle English adjective trene, trein, Old English trēowen, triwen. see origin at tree, -en ²

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Example Sentences

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treen

Let my surplice-shroud be spun Of sparkling summer clover; While the great and stately treen Their rich rood-screen hang over!

From A Celtic Psaltery by Alfred Perceval Graves

J. Ward, writing in 1828 of the "Potter's Art," spoke thus of the humble boards of his youth: "And there the trencher commonly was seen With its attendant ample platter treen."

From Customs and Fashions in Old New England by Alice Morse Earle

I glean,    Beneath a Scottish sky, And "pehty de-aw!" amid the treen    Of Middlesex or nigh.

From Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses by Thomas Hardy

Sulphur parrots, and parrots red, Scarlet, and flame, and green; And five-foot apes that jargonèd In feathery-tufted treen.

From Songs of Childhood by Anthony Hecht

Much skill had they in runes, and were exceeding deft in scoring them on treen bowls, and on staves, and door-posts and roof-beams and standing-beds and such like things. 

From The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale by William Morris

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