wood tick

noun

American dog tick.

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 XXX
Joel 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 Wheel
Stanley 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 House
Anne Warner
The wood-tick is a small, rather disgusting-looking creature which, in appearance and size, resembles the common bedbug.
On the Trail
Lina Beard and Adelia Belle Beard
Doubtless at that same instant I shall discover a wood-tick advancing up one of my trousers' legs.
Quick Action
Robert W. Chambers