To ripen by caprification.

to hack or cut with crossing lines.

transitive. To deprive (a thing) of its string or strings; to strip the ‘string’ from (a bean-pod); to remove the runners from (a…

transitive. English regional. To dig a trench around (a fruit tree), in order to trim its roots and control its vegetative growth. rare.

To stretch threads across or over; to intersperse with threads so stretched.