Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A tree producing cherries. See
cherry .
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Examples
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For others, the sanctimonious cherry-tree killer invented by Mason Weems comes to mind, a miniature version of the wise and solemn man he would become.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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Just back from picking some meat from the cherry-tree, this was a real katharsis.
Catachresis and the amusing, awful and artificial cathedral 2009
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For others, the sanctimonious cherry-tree killer invented by Mason Weems comes to mind, a miniature version of the wise and solemn man he would become.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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For others, the sanctimonious cherry-tree killer invented by Mason Weems comes to mind, a miniature version of the wise and solemn man he would become.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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For others, the sanctimonious cherry-tree killer invented by Mason Weems comes to mind, a miniature version of the wise and solemn man he would become.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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The Presidents 'Day holiday was officially established in 1885 to honor George Washington, the apocryphal cherry-tree chopper, Revolutionary general, and first U.S. president whose visage graces the ever-iconic U.S. one dollar bill.
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The Presidents 'Day holiday was officially established in 1885 to honor George Washington, the apocryphal cherry-tree chopper, Revolutionary general, and first U.S. president whose visage graces the ever-iconic U.S. one dollar bill.
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Admonitions against lying are as old as Western civilization itself, but the Ninth Commandment was applied to the presidency by the first presidential biographer — a parson named Mason Locke Weems, who not only launched the cult of the president-as-truth-teller but did so retroactively with that famous, but unverifiable, cherry-tree story.
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Admonitions against lying are as old as Western civilization itself, but the Ninth Commandment was applied to the presidency by the first presidential biographer — a parson named Mason Locke Weems, who not only launched the cult of the president-as-truth-teller but did so retroactively with that famous, but unverifiable, cherry-tree story.
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Admonitions against lying are as old as Western civilization itself, but the Ninth Commandment was applied to the presidency by the first presidential biographer — a parson named Mason Locke Weems, who not only launched the cult of the president-as-truth-teller but did so retroactively with that famous, but unverifiable, cherry-tree story.
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