To trim (a hedge or tree, the sides of a ditch or path). local.

= brush, v.2 7. Also intransitive.

To make a slope on the top or side of (a) a hedge; (b) a stack. (See quots.) dialect.

transitive. To clip about, crop.

transitive. To cut off the switches or projecting twigs from; to trim (a tree, hedge, etc.).

dialect. To trim (a hedgerow); to dress (a fleece) by removing the ragged edges.

transitive. To prune by cutting off superfluous shoots; to reduce the thickness of (a hedge, etc.) by pruning. Also intransitive. Now rare.