wood tick
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noun
Origin of wood tick
First recorded in 1660–70
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Historical Examples of wood tick
While there, we were greatly annoyed by the wood-tick—an insect resembling, in size and in other respects, the sheep-tick.
Early Western Travels 1748-1846, Volume XXXJoel Palmer
When I hire out I goes ter the highest bidder, an' I sticks thar like a wood-tick ter a yaller dog.
Motor Matt; or, The King of the WheelStanley R. Matthews
She says they very soon found out as they was under a wood-tick tree too, an' the children run into a burr-patch after dinner.
Susan Clegg and a Man in the HouseAnne Warner
The wood-tick is a small, rather disgusting-looking creature which, in appearance and size, resembles the common bedbug.
On the TrailLina Beard and Adelia Belle Beard
Doubtless at that same instant I shall discover a wood-tick advancing up one of my trousers' legs.
Quick ActionRobert W. Chambers