a. nonce-wd. [f. TREE sb. + -WARD.] Toward a tree or trees. So Treewards adv.
1854. Tait’s Mag., XXI. 307. Birds are winging Treewards.
1869. Routledge’s Ev. Boy’s Ann., 584. I took care to be on the treeward side of the amputation.
1880. Lamoille News (VT), 29 Dec., 3/2. Our Christmas tree was more than a showy success. Better than its qualities and quantities, which were excellent, was the fact that the five hundred faces turned tree-ward, were from neighborhoods laying near the circumference as well as the centre of the town.
