tree

Verb

• stretch (a shoe) on a shoetree

• chase an animal up a tree
  • the hunters treed the bear with dogs and killed it
    
  • her dog likes to tree squirrels
    

• plant with trees
  • this lot should be treed so that the house will be shaded in summer
    

• force a person or an animal into a position from which he cannot escape

Noun

• English actor and theatrical producer noted for his lavish productions of Shakespeare (1853-1917)

• a figure that branches from a single root
  • genealogical tree
    

• a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  shoetree , corner , Tree , Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree , tree diagram