tree-maker

Noun

1. One who makes or constructs a tree, i.e., a branching diagram or a family tree.
   • Alfred S. Romer, a paleontologist at Harvard, was one of the great tree makers of the midcentury, and his reached a broad audience of young scientists-in-training through his influential textbooks, most notably...
2. One who makes or constructs saddle trees.
   • In making saddles to run and try in, the trees oƒf them are occasionally leaded by the tree-maker or saddler, agreeably to the directions either may receive from his employer; and a four-pound saddle in this way is made...
   • This instrument was procured and the Investigating Officer was easily convinced of the accuracy of the wood-carver's statements, and, on the result being communicated to the victim of the theft, the thief was easily...
   • It takes Hill from a week to at least a month to make a saddle, figuring drying time for the dampened leather and depending on the type of saddle. He starts with the tree, which he acquired from a tree maker. - 1985,...
3. One who combines the waxes (wax molds) for multiple rings onto a wax rod in order to cast a plaster mold for making multiple rings.
   • Next a tree maker takes a handful of the waxes and attaches them to a wax rod; the waxes branch up off the rod like the limbs of a Christmas tree, connected to the rod by the twig of wax created when the wax was forced...
4. A software program that constructs family trees.
   • Titles found in this category include Compton's Encyclopedia, Microsoft Encarta, Mavis Beacon Typing, home designing software, family tree makers, as well as a wide range of college test preparation software and...
   • There are also free software tree-makers, which you can track down online, or via a family history magazine bulletin. - 2011, Cherry Gilchrist, Growing Your Family Tree:
   • Our Gold Award winner, Legacy Family Tree, has features that connect you to popular genealogy searches, sync with online tree makers and import any sources you find online. - 2017, Leonard Hendershott, The Story...
5. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see tree, maker.