subs. (venery).—The female pudendum: see MONOSYLLABLE. Whence HAVE AT THE PLUM-TREE, a proverbial phrase, or the burden of a song.

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  c. 1547.  The Mariage of Witt and Wisdome, 16.

        I was neuer stained but once,
faling out of my mothers PLUMTRE.

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  1594.  SHAKESPEARE, 2 Henry VI., ii. 1. Suff. How cam’st thou so? [lame]. Simp. A fall off of a tree. Wife. A PLUM-TREE, master. Glou. How long hast thou been blind? Simp. O, born so, master.

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  1611.  COTGRAVE, Dictionarie, s.v. Hocheprunier. A PLUM-TREE shaker, a man’s yard.

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