Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for QUICK'-BEAM, or QUICK'EN-TREE
QUICK'-BEAM, or QUICK'EN-TREE, n.
A tree, the wild sorb. The Pyrus or Sorbus aucuparia, a species of service tree, sometimes also called roan-tree, and fowl-pear, because the apples are used as a bait for birds.
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