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Wipple-tree or Whipultre

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Mentioned in Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale, is the cornel-tree or dogwood (Cornus sanguinea) (= whiffle-tree, from whiffle = to turn).

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Wine Mingled with Myrrh (Mark xv. 23)
Wintrith
Wing, Wings
Wings of Azrael (The)
Winged Rooks
Winifred (St.)
Winkle (Rip van)
Wint-monath [Wind-month]
Winter, Summer
Winter’s Tale (Shakespeare)
Wipple-tree or Whipultre
Wisdom-tooth
Wisdom of Many and the Wit of One (The)
Wise (The)
Wise as a Serpent
Wise as Solomon
Wise as the Mayor of Banbury
Wise as the Women of Mungret
Wise Men or Wise Women
Wise Men of Greece
Wise Men of the East