dial. Also 9 witty. Usually whitty-tree = WHITTEN-tree.

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a. 1686.  Aubrey, Nat. Hist. Wilts (1847), 56. Whitty-tree, or wayfaring tree, is rare in this country.

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1833.  E. Lees, Affin. Plants (1834), 63. The true-service or sorb-tree…. This tree … is called the whitty or witten pear-tree, its fruit being exactly similar to very small pears.

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1847.  Halliwell, Whitty-tree, the mountain ash. West. Ibid., Witty (L), the mountain ash. Salop.

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1868.  Witty (see WHITTEN).

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