Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The mountain-ash of the Old World, Pyrus aucuparia; also, less properly, either of the American species P. Americana and P. sambucifolia. See
mountainash , 1. Also roan-tree, roun-tree.
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Examples
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Here I stand and I wait, here in the rowan-tree hollow
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Sweet is the place you guard, there in the rowan-tree hollow.
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Here I stand and I wait, here in the rowan-tree hollow
Archive 2008-02-01 2008
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Sweet is the place you guard, there in the rowan-tree hollow.
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Checked the rowan-tree hole when I headed out for the morning newspaper walk.
Short attention-span jhetley 2008
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The primitive neighbours remark that no rowan-tree grows near, nor holly, nor bracken, and no horseshoe is nailed on the door.
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The primitive neighbours remark that no rowan-tree grows near, nor holly, nor bracken, and no horseshoe is nailed on the door.
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Whenever he saw a rowan-tree he halted a while with his arms stretched out, and sang, and swayed as he sang.
The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954
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"Am I not the daft lassie?" said she, and started to the singing of merry airs; but before we saw the rowan-tree that grows on the face of the black hill, her songs were sad again.
The McBrides A Romance of Arran John Sillars
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"Would it be believed," said the dame when speaking of the extraordinary circumstance, "that the simple mother went out, leaving her child alone, uncrossed, without a charm about its person, and without a horse-shoe being nailed on the threshold or behind the door, or a piece of rowan-tree at the door or window or in the cradle?"
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