rood-tree

English

Alternative forms

• Rood tree, Rood-tree
• rood tree

Etymology

From Middle English rodetre.

Noun

rood-tree (countable and uncountable, plural rood-trees)

1. The cross on which Jesus was crucified
   • 1631, John Weever, Antient fvnerall monvments within the vnited monarchie of Great Britaine, Ireland, and the islands adiacent,: with the dissolued monasteries therein contained: their founders, and what eminent persons haue beene in the same interred. As also the death and bvriall of certaine of the bloud royall; the nobilitie and gentrie of these kingdomes entombed in forraine nations ...‎, London: Thomas Harper, page 569:

     Cryst who dyed for vs on the Rood tree, Sav the sowl of my Husbond, owr chyldren, and mee.

2. A representation of the cross on which Jesus was crucified.

Hypernyms

• tree

Anagrams

• rerooted