Back into a corner (4 letters)

{ Answer }

TREE

{ Related Clues }

Arboret
Corner
Ginkgo, for one
Tannenbaum, for one
Apple or maple
Arboreal locale
Ash or elm
Birch or larch
Chestnut or walnut
Deodar or baobab
___ of heaven (ailanthus)
Koala's hangout
Logic diagram
Lumber source
Pecan or walnut
Persea or wicopy
Site for a swing
Sugarplum or lemon
Sycamore, e.g.
Yule cynosure
Center of a Christmas display
Family or shoe follower
Kind of toad or frog
Part of a windbreak, maybe
Place for a hat or a shoe
Sir Herbert Beerbohm ___
Sweet bay, e.g.
Devil's walking-stick, e.g.
Red bay or sweet bay

{ Tags }

apple, baobab, bay, corner, diagram, dryads, eg, elder, elm, family, follower, hat, home, kind, place, shoe, site, tree, tulip, tupelo, word

{ Notes }

The answer TREE is very common and appears about once every 28.3 puzzles.

{ Definition }

TREE as a noun:

1. a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms

2. (tree, tree diagram) = a figure that branches from a single root; "genealogical tree"

3. (Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree) = English actor and theatrical producer noted for his lavish productions of Shakespeare (1853-1917)

TREE as a verb:

1. (corner, tree) = force a person or an animal into a position from which he cannot escape

2. plant with trees; "this lot should be treed so that the house will be shaded in summer"

3. chase an animal up a tree; "the hunters treed the bear with dogs and killed it"; "her dog likes to tree squirrels"

4. (tree, shoetree) = stretch (a shoe) on a shoetree