Brewer's: Oak-tree

(See Philemon.)

The oak-tree was consecrated to the god of thunder
because oaks are said to be more likely to be struck by lightning than other trees.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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