Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Cookware, tableware, or eating utensils made of wood.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Wooden: especially noting plates and dishes. See trencher.
- Pertaining to or derived from trees.
- n. An old plural of tree.
- n. In the Isle of Man, a territorial division, of uncertain origin and purpose, subdivided into estates called quarterlands.
Wiktionary
- n. obsolete Alternative plural form of tree.
- adj. Pertaining to or derived from trees; wooden; made of wood.
- adj. Scotland A large wooden platter.
- n. Household articles made of wood.
GNU Webster's 1913
Etymologies
- From Middle English treen, from Old English trēowen ("of a tree, of wood, wooden"), equivalent to tree + -en. See trencher, truncher. (Wiktionary)
- From Middle English, made of wood, from Old English trēowen, from trēow, tree; see tree. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Loab at cod then herrin or wind thin mong them treen.”
“Madame says: Allo? and you say: Katherine Sil vous plait (Ka-treen see voo play)”
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“In the borough most kitchenware was of wood or cast iron, with other metals generally to mend splits in the treen, wooden, dishes.”
“So left her, where she now is turnd to treen mould.”
“When the sky is all scarlet on the tops of the treen”
“The third thing they tell of is the exchange of vessel, as of treen platters into pewter, and wooden spoons into silver or tin.”
“Then said our Lord to Moses: Say thou to Aaron: Take this rod and stretch thine hand upon all the waters of Egypt, upon the floods, rivers, ponds, and upon all the lakes where any water is, in that they turn to blood, that it may be a vengeance in all the land of Egypt, as well in treen vessels as in vessels of earth and stone.”
“In Harrison's _Elizabethan England_ we read that the times had changed, for instead of "treen platters" there were pewter plates, and tin or silver spoons instead of wood.”
“It was a good-natured, cackling epistle, full of sweet nothings about Glory and the hospital, about Peel and the discovery of ancient ruins in the graveyards of the treen chapels, but it closed with this postscript:”
“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.”
The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘treen’.
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WWF WTF?
Ever play "Words With Friends" with someone and they throw down some strange, unlikely group of letters that makes even the most mild and squeaky clean tongued person say "whiskey tango foxtrot"? ...
oorie, sangar, merl, cwm, doum, weir, jura, invar, lawine, tapa, waw, shog and 376 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Zamboni Palin
My imaginary lexicon for future megastar and visionary Zamboni Palin.
strewth, curple, speshly, ugly tree, whupping, nar'n, swain, sneezeweed, sciencey, snarleyyow, jackpudding, squanch and 304 more...
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misterspee's Words
prolepsis, cumin, nacreous, lucre, obstreperous, nibble, nubbin, kenosis, frangible, aposiopesis, synecdoche, persiflage and 144 more...
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madamepsychosis's Words
mollify, salubrious, prandial, coup de grace, ineluctable, metempsychosis, pedant, conatus, oeuvre, laconic, solipsism, vapid and 265 more...
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torquate, thalassocracy, toothsome, travois, tempestuous, tone, tincture, tripwire, tether, trill, tenacious, travesty and 355 more...
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anneal, copepod, cuckoo, fathead, intone, patter, cabriole, knickknack, boodle, kit, estrange, forebode and 209 more...
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new acquisitions
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samara, indehiscent, paschal, rogation, wen, rete, diriment, epicene, duramen, euhemerism, objurgate, canaille and 429 more...
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How can you be real?
Comprised of obsolete(ish) words that sound really, really made up, often because they're just words that already exist with one letter changed as though coined by an easily amused pothead, y know?...
ruttock, queem, smouse, eften, sneap, venew, thoft, treen, jint, twattle, odible, vaward and 28 more...
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johnmperry objects made of wood Jul 21, 2008