TRY

B TRY. A common termination of local names, as Allstry, Oswestry, lugestrie. A- Sax. treon\ a tree. Most of the places so designated anciently possessed some tree, reraarkahle either for its age or size, or from some striking event associated with it. The veneration in which individual trees were held, in the patriarchal and Druidical ages, is well known.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.