The Collaborative International Dictionary
Quicken tree \Quick"en tree`\ [Probably from quick, and first applied to the aspen or some tree with quivering leaves; cf. G. quickenbaum, quizenbaum, quitschenbaum. Cf. Quitch grass.] (Bot.) The European rowan tree; -- called also quickbeam, and quickenbeam. See Rowan tree.
Wikipedia
Quickbeam may refer to:
- Sorbus aucuparia, a tree also called rowan, or mountain ash
- Bregalad, a fictional humanoid tree created by J. R. R. Tolkien
- Quickbeam hill, on Dartmoor, Devon, U.K., on the route of the former Redlake Tramway
Usage examples of "quickbeam".
But the night had opened out, and there was a great light of stars, quite enough for Ents to see by, and suddenly Quickbeam gave a cry "The tree-killer, the tree-killer!
By that time there were many Ents inside Isengard: some had followed Quickbeam, and others had burst in from the north and east.
Round it all ran the threads, with the vivid scarlet splashes of quickbeam berries dangling from them.
Shef was left to the routine duties of a smith's assistant, made more trying by being confined to the enclosure of Thor: the forge itself, near it a small sleeping tent and an outhouse with a deep-dug latrine, the whole surrounded by the cords and the quickbeam berries, which Thorvin called rowan.