transitive. To cut or lop off (a branch). Also in figurative context, and with off. In later use Scottish and northern dialect.

transitive. To rid (a tree, vine, vineyard) of superfluous growth; to prune. Obsolete.

transitive. To cut off or remove the ‘crop’ or head of (a plant, tree, etc.); to poll, to lop off the branches of (a tree).

transitive. To prune (a tree). Obsolete.

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

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

transitive. To lop or prune (trees). Chiefly in vbl._n., concrete = prunings, loppings. Cf. shroud, v.2

transitive. To make the top or head of (anything) blunt, rounded, or bare; hence, to clip or poll the hair of (a person); to deprive (an animal) of…

transitive. To cut off the top of (a tree or plant); spec. to top or head (a tree) a few feet from the ground so it throws out more branches, to…

transitive. To prune, clip. Obsolete or dialect.

To cut off the top of (a growing tree, a plant, or the like); to poll or pollard (a tree); to lop, prune, or shorten back (branches or shoots); to…

transitive. To crop, cut close; esp. to cut off (ears), crop the ears of (a sheep); to lop off the branches of (a tree), or the leaves of (a…

transitive. To cut off the branches, twigs, etc.: rarely the top or ‘head’, of (a tree); to cut away the superfluous growth of, to trim.

transitive. To strip of boughs.

transitive. To cut off the top or head of (a tree or plant); to prune (branches or shoots); to top, poll. Also with back, down, off.

transitive. = pollard, v.

transitive. To cut branches or twigs from (a vine, tree, shrub, etc.), in order to regulate growth and promote flowering or fruit production…

transitive. To prune or trim (a tree or shrub). Also figurative. Now rare.

To trim, prune (a tree). Obsolete. rare.

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

transitive. To cut or break off the branches of; to deprive or strip of branches.

transitive. To lop (a tree or its branches); also with off; occasionally absol.

transitive. To prune or lop (trees, etc.); to remove by lopping.

transitive. To shorten by lopping off a portion (literal and figurative); to cut short, ‘cut down’.

gen. To cut or lop off, e.g. the branches of trees in pruning. Obs. exc. as a fig. use of 2.

transitive. To prune (a tree).

To trim or crop (trees, hedges, etc.).

to strip up: (see quot. 1893). Now dialect.

transitive. To prune or cut back again. Also in extended use.

transitive. To cut back the upper trunk and branches of (a tree); to make a pollard of. Also figurative.

To lop (a tree, its branches); also figurative. Obsolete.

transitive. To bring (a tree) to the condition of a log; to deprive of branches (obsolete).

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

transitive. To remove branches from (a tree).

transitive. To prune or trim (a tree, plant, etc.).

transitive. To prune by cutting off the shoots close back to the main stem or stock.

transitive. To lop off (branches), strip off (leaves); to strip (a tree, root, etc.) of its branches or foliage; figurative to strip (a person) of…

transitive. To remove the lower branches of (a tree). Also with up.

transitive to perform summer pruning upon; (also intransitive) to perform summer pruning.