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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

To take refuge in a tree, said of a wild animal; to force to take refuge in a tree, drive to a tree, said of the hunter. To tree oneself, is to conceal oneself behind a tree, as in hunting or fighting. This hunter's word is purely American.


Besides treeing, the wild cat will take advantage of some hole in the ground, and disappear as suddenly as ghosts at cock-crowing.--Thorpe's Backwoods, p. 180.

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