treen

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We came away with a bag full of more or less decent treen, a couple of woodcarving knives and a burning desire to own one of Robin's small drinking vessels.

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  1. noun Cookware, tableware, or eating utensils made of wood.

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  • Two assembled sets of American maple painted treen bowls realized $1,028 and $499. —  Antique News News!
  • We came away with a bag full of more or less decent treen, a couple of woodcarving knives and a burning desire to own one of Robin's small drinking vessels. —  RubyCorner
  • I jumps up quick an' runs tew sum bushes that growed a-treen me an' th' sound, an' looks through 'em, a little cautious-like on account of my broken arm, an' seed three men a-strugglin' on th' ground not more'n forty rods from whar I was; an' th' next I knowed I heared a lot of yellin', an' seen tew men jump out of th' bushes sum twenty rods below me, an' start runnin' for them fightin' men. —  The Cave of Gold A Tale of California in '49
  • So left her, where she now is turnd to treen mould. —  The Faerie Queene — Volume 01
  • The wretched payre transform'd to treen mould; —  The Faerie Queene — Volume 01
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  1. From Middle English, made of wood, from Old English trēowen, from trēow, tree; see tree.

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  1. from Middle English treen, from Anglo-Saxon treówen, trīwen, wooden, of wood, from treó, treów, tree, wood: see tree and -en.
  2. Manx: see quot.
 

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