Definition of "big tree" []

• See giant sequoia. (noun)

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• "Within two hours the hog — killed, scalded, and scraped of its hair — was hanging pale from a big tree limb by a gambrel stick run through the tendons of its hind feet."
• "The archaeologist Tim Darvill has woven a kind of creation myth in which the big tree would have given the place significance, and might have been the first landmark at the place we now call Stonehenge or, at least, its car park at a time when hunter-gatherers wandered the land."
• ""Aunt" Jemima -- Aunt Mimy -- into a nervous fit, I would climb up the big tree in the yard, and stand on my head on a limb."