To clip, cut, or trim (a tree or bush, a lawn); †to cut off (a branch).

transitive. To lop, trim, prune.

transitive. To trim or prune (shoots, leaves, etc.) from a plant or tree. Obsolete.

transitive. To cut down or back to a desired length; to trim, prune. Obsolete.

transitive. To make shorter, to diminish the length of, to abridge, curtail. Horticulture. To cut back in pruning. Also to shorten in, back.