Obs. [f. LIME sb.1] = LIME-TWIG.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Monk’s T., 394. The feeld of snow, with thegle of blak ther-Inne Caught with the lymerod, coloured as the gleede.
1550. Coverdale, Spir. Perle, xxxi. 260. Like as ye birde yt is caught with the lyme rode.
1617. Minsheu, Lime twigges, or lime roddes.
1626. Breton, Fantastickes, Jan. (Grosart), 7. The Currier and the Lime-rod are the death of the fowle.
