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Wych elm

noun
1.
Eurasian elm often planted as a shade tree.  Synonyms: Ulmus glabra, witch elm.






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"Wych elm" Quotes from Famous Books



... home the poles have to be trimmed, cut to the proper length, 12 to 14 feet, "sharped," "shaved" at the butt 2 or 3 feet upwards, and finally boiled so far for twenty-four hours, standing upright in creosote, which doubles the lasting period of their existence. They were chiefly ash, larch, maple, wych elm, and sallow, and the rough butts, when sawn off before the sharping, supplied the firing for the boiling. Green ash is splendid for burning: "The ash when green is fuel for a Queen." Later, when I adopted a Kentish system of hop-growing on coco-nut yarn supported by steel ...
— Grain and Chaff from an English Manor • Arthur H. Savory



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