rood-tree
nounEtymology From Middle English rodetre.
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 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:
2
A representation of the cross on which Jesus was crucified.
- Hypernyms
- tree