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Definition of Treenware
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Treenware
Literary usage of Treenware
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Student's Pastime: Being a Select Series of Articles Reprinted from "Notes by Walter William Skeat (1896)
"Without doubt the explanation of treenware by ‘earthen vessels' is, ... Similarly,
the name of treenware may very well have been continued in use long after ..."
2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1873)
"... adj. wise and forward above their age ; spoken of children. The same with aud-
farand, qv treenware, sb. earthen vessels. Trinket, sft. a porringer ..."
3. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1850)
"Coll. Trin. Cantab, f. 77 (2) Trees. The A.-S. plural. treenware. Earthen vessels ?
Ray. TREET. A kind of bran. ..."
4. Reprinted Glossaries by Walter William Skeat (1873)
"... adj. wise and forward above their age ; spoken of children. The same with aud-
farand, qv treenware, sb. earthen ..."
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