witch-elm

British  

noun

1. a variant spelling of wych-elm

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Example Sentences

"Harp of the North! that mouldering long hast hung On the witch-elm that shades Saint Fillan's spring."

From Chronicles of Strathearn by Macdougall, W. B.

Then Slab took Belle-Ann's place on the witch-elm block and produced his beloved instrument—a cross between guitar and banjo, self-made of gut and a gourd.

From The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky by MacDonald, Everett

One morning, when Bud and Slab justly supposed Lem was still asleep, he appeared at the witch-elm horse-block with Johnse Hatfield's piebald mare.

From The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky by MacDonald, Everett

At the witch-elm block the old blind hound staggered exultantly about.

From The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky by MacDonald, Everett

Near by a huge witch-elm butt, sawed into three steps, shaped a horse-block.

From The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky by MacDonald, Everett