wood tick

Origin of wood tick

First recorded in 1660–70

Doubtless at that same instant I shall discover a wood-tick advancing up one of my trousers' legs.

Quick Action |Robert W. Chambers
When I hire out I goes ter the highest bidder, an' I sticks thar like a wood-tick ter a yaller dog.

Motor Matt; or, The King of the Wheel |Stanley R. Matthews
She says they very soon found out as they was under a wood-tick tree too, an' the children run into a burr-patch after dinner.

Susan Clegg and a Man in the House |Anne Warner
The wood-tick is a small, rather disgusting-looking creature which, in appearance and size, resembles the common bedbug.

On the Trail |Lina Beard and Adelia Belle Beard

While there, we were greatly annoyed by the wood-tick—an insect resembling, in size and in other respects, the sheep-tick.

Early Western Travels 1748-1846, Volume XXX |Joel Palmer