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  • tree
    [Car.; OED, includes some perennial plants of great height, e.g. banana] n. a tall plant, such as the corn or
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  • treat somebody up
    [cf. OED treat to deal kindly with obs.→1596] v. to treat somebody well. <Black>
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  • treatment
    [OED, entertainment, feasting obs. except dial.] n. good treatment; kindness: They kill you with treatment (Nassau). <Gen.>
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  • traveling: he traveling
    [cf. Gul. "In my night trabbelin [dreaming] I see all kind of debbil an' boo-hag an' boo-daddy" (Writers' Program 1940:
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  • travel; take a travel
    [cf. Gut. "goin.' on a travel" (Parsons 1923:92); US Black travel walk (Hibbard 1926:498); cf. OED a travel a journey,
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  • trash house
    [cf. DJE trash hat hat made of palm fronds; cf. TRASH 1] n. a house thatched with palm fronds: 1966
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  • trans
    [from transportation] n. a means of transportation; a ride (in a vehicle): Can't go—no trans (Nassau). <Gen.>
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  • track-road
    [cf. Brit. dial. West trackway a narrow path; a road across a moor EDD ] n. a narrow, unpaved road:
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  • tracking
    [cf. OED track a series of marks left by the passage of anything] n. a trace: 1928 My moder had
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  • track
    [OED, to tow (a vessel), esp. from the, bank or tow-path] v. to pull a boat along from the shore:
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