ppl. a. [f. TREE sb. or v. + -ED.]
1. Planted or covered with trees; wooded.
1860. All Year Round, No. 43. 403. Treed slopes high above the sea.
1909. Blackw. Mag., May, 677/1. A little treed enclosure.
2. Driven to take refuge in a tree, as a hunted animal, or a man pursued by wild beasts.
1844. Southern Reformer, 29 June, 3/1. We begin to suspect that James K. Polk, is too well known to the whigs, and that like a ‘treed coon,’ this pretended ignorance, is all dumb show.
1891. Tablet, 25 April, 660. Like a tree’d squirrel.
1894. Times, 30 March, 14/1. He was alone and treed on a bitter cold night, with the lions … regularly patrolling the environs.
1902. Outing (U. S.), June, 298/1. Old hunters throw the light of a torch upon a treed raccoon.
3. Decorated with a tree-like pattern: treed calf = tree-calf (TREE sb. 10 c).
1892. J. H. Badley in Pall Mall G., 5 Oct., 2/1. A copy of … ‘Self-made Men’ in treed calf.
