cop vs tree

cop

noun
  • A roughly dome-shaped piece of armor, especially one covering the shoulder, the elbow, or the knee. 

  • The ball of thread wound on to the spindle in a spinning machine. 

  • A police officer or prison guard. 

  • A tube or quill upon which silk is wound. 

  • A merlon. 

verb
  • To steal. 

  • To adopt. 

  • To obtain, to purchase (as in drugs), to get hold of, to take. 

  • To admit, especially to a crime or wrongdoing. 

  • To earn by bad behavior. 

  • Of a pimp: to recruit a prostitute into the stable. 

  • To (be forced to) take; to receive; to shoulder; to bear, especially blame or punishment for a particular instance of wrongdoing. 

  • To see and record a railway locomotive for the first time. 

tree

noun
  • The structural frame of a saddle. 

  • 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. 

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

  • 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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