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rood-trees

rood-trees is the plural of rood-tree.

Meaning of rood-tree

Noun

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

  1. The cross on which Jesus was crucified
    • Cryst who dyed for vs on the Rood tree, Sav the sowl of my Husbond, owr chyldren, and mee.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...
  2. A representation of the cross on which Jesus was crucified.

Questions about rood-trees

What is rood-trees the plural of?
Rood-trees is the plural of rood-tree.

Words near rood-trees in the dictionary

  1. rood-screen
  2. rood-screens
  3. rood-steeple
  4. rood-steeples
  5. rood-tree
  6. rood-trees
  7. roodebok
  8. roodeboks
  9. Roodepoort
  10. roodloft
  11. roodlofts

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