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Trysting tree
Trysting trees are trees of any species which have, through their individual prominence, appearance, or position, been chosen as traditional or popular meeting places for meetings for specific purposes.〔(Free Dictionary ) retrieved : 2010-09-12〕 Names, dates, and symbols are sometimes found carved on the bark, favouring trees with smoother bark, such as beech,〔Rodger, Page 227〕 hornbeam and sycamore.
Many other forms of landscape features have served as trysting places, such as the Lochmaben Stone on the border of Scotland and England. It was a well known, well recognised and easily located 'marker' on the Scottish Marches and where a number of functions were performed prior to the Union of the Crowns, such arranging truces, exchanging prisoners, etc.〔Maxwell, Page 132〕
==Etymology==
A 'tryst' is a time and a place for a meeting, especially of lovers. In Old French the word meant an appointed station in hunting. It is likely from an Old Norse source sharing its origin with 'traust', and the Modern English 'trust' (and thus also related to the Old English 'treowe' which survives as the modern 'true').〔(Online Etymology Dictionary )〕
A trysting day is an arranged day of meeting or assembling, as of soldiers, friends, lovers and the like.
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