creeper vs tree

creeper

noun
  • A treecreeper. 

  • A one-piece garment for infants designed to facilitate access to the wearer's diaper. 

  • A small four-hooked grapnel used to recover objects dropped onto the sea bed. 

  • Any device for causing material to move steadily from one part of a machine to another, such as an apron in a carding machine, or an inner spiral in a grain screen. 

  • Any plant (as ivy or periwinkle) that grows by creeping, especially a climbing plant of the genus Parthenocissus. 

  • The lowest gear of a tractor or truck. 

  • A small low iron, or dog, between the andirons. 

  • A person who creeps people out; a creepy person. 

  • A metal plate with spikes, designed to be worn with shoes to prevent slipping. 

  • An instrument with iron hooks or claws for dredging up items from a well or other water. 

  • A person or a thing that crawls or creeps. 

  • A low-profile wheeled platform whereupon an auto mechanic may lie on their back and gain better access to the underbody of a vehicle. 

  • A kind of shoe, usually with a suede upper and a thick crepe sole, associated with various 20th-century subcultures. 

  • A spur-like device strapped to the boot to facilitate climbing. 

  • A ball that travels low, near ground level. 

  • A device which allows a small child to safely roam around a room from a seated or standing position. 

tree

noun
  • An object made from a tree trunk and having multiple hooks or storage platforms. 

  • Any plant that is reminiscent of the above but not classified as a tree (in any botanical sense). 

  • The fifth Lenormand card. 

  • A recursive data structure in which each node has zero or more nodes as children. 

  • The structural frame of a saddle. 

  • A connected graph with no cycles or, if the graph is finite, equivalently a connected graph with n vertices and n−1 edges. 

  • A display or listing of entries or elements such that there are primary and secondary entries shown, usually linked by drawn lines or by indenting to the right. 

  • Any structure or construct having branches representing divergence or possible choices. 

  • The structure or wooden frame used in the construction of a saddle used in horse riding. 

  • A perennial woody plant, not exactly defined, but differentiated from a shrub by its larger size (typically over a few meters in height) or growth habit, usually having a single (or few) main axis or trunk unbranched for some distance above the ground and a head of branches and foliage. 

  • Marijuana. 

  • A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution. 

  • A device used to hold or stretch a shoe open. 

verb
  • To chase (an animal or person) up a tree. 

  • To place in a tree. 

  • To place upon a tree; to fit with a tree; to stretch upon a tree. 

  • To take refuge in a tree. 

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