Obs. Also in 6 taxe. [ad. L. tax-us yew.] The yew-tree (also tax-tree); transf. a bow made of the wood of the yew.
1541. Act 33 Hen. VIII., c. 9 § 6. No bowyer shall sell … any bowe of ewe of the taxe called elke, aboue the price of iii. s. iiii. d.
1618. Bolton, Florus, IV. xii. (1636), 331. Poyson … is commonly there scruzed out of tax-trees.
1651. G. Hill, On Cartwright’s Incomparable Poems, in C.’s Poems. Their unbridled Muse [can] securely run Undaunted through the rage of Tax or Gun.
