plantingn.
/ˈplɑːntɪŋ/, /ˈplantɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈplæn(t)ɪŋ/ 1. The action of plant v. (in various senses); an instance of this.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > planting > [noun]
plantingOE
plantationc1429
implanting1597
implantationa1600
plantage1632
society > inhabiting and dwelling > furnishing with inhabitants > colonizing > [noun]
planting1584
plantation1587
settling1609
colonizinga1626
situationa1657
seating1700
colonization1747
settlement1827
pioneering1851
the world > space > place > position or situation > [noun]
stallc1000
logh11..
settlea1340
placea1375
steada1387
sitea1398
assizec1400
position?a1425
estal1480
stound1557
planting1585
location1592
positure1600
posture1605
seat1607
situs1629
ubi1630
ubiety1645
locus1648
locality1656
topography1658
whereness1674
lie1697
spot1769
locus standi1809
possie1916
ubicity1922
the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > [noun]
layingc1330
pitchinga1398
settinga1398
couchingc1400
stowingc1440
placingc1449
stelling1560
disposition1563
location1568
planting1585
situation1589
collocation1605
situating1611
disposurea1625
depositure1635
allodgement1639
instalment1646
fixation1652
deposition1659
lodgement1713
repositing1713
emplacement1742
bestowal1773
locating1774
disposal1828
placement1844
allocation1846
enlodgement1884
siting1902
society > faith > worship > sacrament > order > induction > [noun]
inductingc1380
inductionc1380
institutionc1380
instituting1534
planting1649
settlement1723
stationing1735
the world > existence and causation > causation > initiating or causing to begin > [noun] > institution or founding
fasteningeOE
stablishinga1300
groundingc1380
stablingc1380
ordinancec1384
establishingc1400
foundationc1400
fundament1440
stablishment1444
institutionc1460
upsetting1470
erection1508
instituting1534
foundingc1540
erecting1553
constitution1582
establishment1596
plantation1605
instauration1614
institute1641
bottoming1642
ordaining1643
settlement1646
planting1702
incardination1897
OE Antwerp Gloss. (1955) 144 Propaginatio, wintwiga plantung.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1872) IV. 469 (MED) Domicianus..forbeed..plantynge of vynes in þe citee of Rome [L. vites in urbe plantari prohibuit].
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 211v In fyue maner wise a plaunte is y-gendred and comeþ forþ, of seed, of rootyng, of humour of water, of plauntynge, and of graffes of oon in to an oþer.
a1475 (?a1430) J. Lydgate tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Life Man (Vitell.) 21791 (MED) Thow shalt ageyn retourne Toward the heggh off hyr plauntyng.
c1484 (a1475) J. de Caritate tr. Secreta Secret. (Takamiya) (1977) 177 Summe be born or sprongyn with-owte seede, and sum with-owte plauntyng [a1500 Lamb. 501 plantyng; L. plantatione].
a1500 tr. Catherine of Siena Orcherd of Syon (Pierpont Morgan) (1966) 16 (MED) Þouȝ my herbis be gaderid, ȝit a tyme I must haue of settynge and of plantynge.
?1529 R. Hyrde in tr. J. L. Vives Instr. Christen Woman Ded. sig. A.iiv For the plantynge and nurysshynge of good vertuous in euerye kynde of women, virgins, wyues, and wydowes.
1584 R. Hakluyt in Writings & Corr. (1935) 213 A briefe collection of certaine reasons to induce her Matie and the state to take in hande the western voyadge and the plantinge there.
1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie i. xvii. 20 A hill, from whence we might easily see..the planting of their campe and their approches.
1649 Proc. Commiss. Gen. Assembly (1896) 285 Recommende to the Presbyterie the planting of that Kirk with diligence.
1652 J. Gaule Πυς-μαντια 107 Why an Hypothesis..should be absurdly imagined, and arrogantly corrogated, for the planting or promoting of error, and falshood?
1702 C. Mather (title) Magnalia Christi Americana: or, the ecclesiastical history of New-england, from its first planting in the year 1620. unto the year..1698.
1724 S. Switzer et al. Pract. Fruit-gardener xii. 74 The Panning and Mulshing concludes the care that appertains to the planting of Fruit-Trees, especially against walls.
1777 Farmer's Mag. May 122 The usual time of sowing, or as it is here called of planting, is from the middle of April to the middle of May.
1818 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) I. 573 The planting of Clare Hall walk..with Ivy.
1851 R. Fortune Tea Plantations N.W. Provinces 7 The last planting alluded to had been done late in the spring.
1892 Daily News 14 July 5/5 Rock and strawberry bass abound in the Delaware and Schuykill Rivers after the successful planting of four years ago.
1929 H. A. A. Nicholls & J. H. Holland Text-bk. Trop. Agric. (ed. 2) i. xi. 90 (caption) Fitted with trenching body for making ridges or furrows such as are required for the planting of sugar-cane.
1994 World-Herald (Omaha) 24 Dec. 32/6 All three movements encourage the planting of new churches when one fellowship grows too large.
2004 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 1 Feb. i. 16/3 The ground is frozen, making the planting of lawn signs difficult.
2. † a. A young plant, a cutting, a seedling. Obsolete.
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > management of plants > propagation of plants > [noun] > by cuttings > cutting or slip
planteOE
plantingeOE
quickwoodc1383
graffa1393
sarmenta1398
slivingc1400
springc1400
clavec1420
sleavingc1440
talionc1440
quick1456
quicking1469
graft1483
quickset1484
slip1495
setlingc1503
set1513
pitchset1519
slaving?1523
truncheon1572
stallon1587
crosset1600
marquot1600
sliver1604
secta1616
offset1629
slipping1638
side-slip1651
slift1657
cutting1691
pitcher1707
mallet-shoot1745
root cutting1784
stowing1788
stool1789
pitch1808
heel1822
cutling1834
piping1851
cutback1897
stump plant1953
eOE Royal Psalter cxliii.12 Quorum filii sicut nouellę plantationes stabiliti a iuuentute sua : þara bearn swa swa niwe plantunga gestaþolode of geoguðhade heora.
OE West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xv. 13 Ælc plantung [L. plantatio] þe min heofenlica fæder ne plantode byþ awurtwalod.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) Psalms cxliii. 12 Whos sones [ben] as new plauntingis [L. novellae plantationes] in þer ȝouþe.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) Dan. xi. 7 A plauntyng [L. plantatio] shal stonde of the buriownyng of hir rootis.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 254 Austyn..meneþ þat it were bettre y-seyde, adulterine plantaciones ‘bastard plauntynges’..but þe verray lettre..in [read is] spuria vitulamina.
1678 Forbes Baron Court Bk. in Publ. Sc. Hist. Soc. (1919) 2nd Ser. 19 321 The wholl tennants to plant thair kaill yairds..they gaiting plantins from thair maister.
1702 Rec. Old Aberdeen (Spalding Club) II. 159 To James Jaffray for threety young plantin bought at Monimusk at 3/4 per piece.
1853 F. W. Thomas John Randolph & Other Sketches 112 After my relative had set out his early York cabbages, we told Nat that he might have all the ‘plantings’ that were left.
b. A cluster or bed of planted things, esp. trees; a wood, a grove; woodland. Also: planted things collectively.
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the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > wood or assemblage of trees or shrubs > [noun] > planted, cultivated, or valued
high forest1477
planting1535
plantation1669
woodwork1712
wooding1788
1535 Acts Parl. Scotl. (1814) II. 343/2 That euery man..caus planting to be maid..to be raisit..to the kingis grace vs.
1590 Edinb. Test. XXI. f. 260, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue (at cited word) That thai..hald vp the dykis and nureis the planting.
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. x. 498 The delectable planure of Murray.., inriched with Cornes, Plantings, Pastorage.
1689 in H. Paton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1932) 3rd Ser. XIII. 502 It was I that..planted all the young planting you see about the place and parks.
1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 76 If they offer'd to..destroy any of the Corn, Plantings, Buildings.
1725 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd v. iii. 86 Bussy Gardners shall new Planting rear.
1794 A. Lowe Agric. Berwickshire 51 It is found that planting will not grow on any kind of soil on the summits of the hills, neither will it grow on moss.
1812 J. Sinclair Acct. Syst. Husbandry Scotl. i. 44 Hedges are often accompanied with hedge-rows, and sometimes by what are called belts of planting.
1854 H. Miller My Schools & Schoolmasters x. 195 When the day was fine, I used to spend it by the side of a mossy stream..or in a neighbouring planting.
1891 T. E. Kebbel Old & New Eng. Country Life 48 In the woods and plantings trees are being felled.
1939 P. Gallagher My Story 19 She gave me a bag and told me to go down to the planting and gather a good bag of leaves for bedding.
1951 S. H. Bell December Bride ii. xiv. 155 Potatoes and corn there, he noted, a bit o' flax along the side of that planting, grazing at the lough where the cattle could water.
1988 Yankee July 18/1 Narcissus bulb fly, basal plate rot, and virus can decimate a planting over a short time.
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planting district n.
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1841 Times 3 Nov. 4/5 The projected establishment of a railway in the interior, passing through the most populous of the planting districts, the great merit of which is that it will be carried out with Brazilian capital.
1878 J. Inglis Sport & Work xvii. 222 Let him leave the planting districts, and go up to the wastes of Oudh.
1992 Jrnl. Southern Hist. 58 89 In early November, from the heart of the planting district came rumors of a ‘Negro insurrection’ that was to take place at Christmastime.
planting land n.
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?1644 Dec. in G. F. Dow Probate Rec. Essex County, Mass. (1916) I. 27 2 akers of planting Land, 1li. 10s.
1791 W. Bartram Trav. N. & S. Carolina 54 Their old field and planting land extend up and down the river.
1893 Geogr. Jrnl. 1 525 This [channel] has drained the flat below the station, which instead of being swampy as it formerly was, is now excellent planting land.
1998 A. Ostriker Little Space 6 I want to be decent In the bath, sweet hills and valleys Afloat, suspended, miraculous Mountain land, grazing land, building land, planting land.
planting produce n.
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1773 Ann. Reg. 1772 112/2 This is the state of the planting produce on the poor forest sands.
1890 Times 20 Sept. 3/6 A subsequent preliminary report on the traffic up to July 27 last shows a great increase in the traffic in planting produce. Thus, it included 3,414 tons of tea.., 478 tons of tea leaf, 210 tons of coffee, 258 tons of cotton, [etc.].
1907 N.E.D. at Planting vbl. sb. Planting produce.
planting season n.
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1712 J. Mortimer Art of Husbandry: Pt. II 124 Being cut off about the beginning of Planting-season, it will grow.
1835 J. H. Ingraham South-west II. 282 During the planting season, or between the first of April and the middle of May, there are always from one to three wet or rainy spells, continuing from one to four days each, so that the planting is necessarily interrupted.
2003 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 16 Mar. i. 18/2 The new trees were planted this month to take advantage of the short planting season near the Texas Gulf Coast.
planting work n.
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1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 198 One of our Seamen..offer'd to go with the Sloop, and settle there upon my..giving him some Clothes, and Tools for his Planting-Work, which he said he understood, having been an old Planter at Maryland.
1855 Ladies Repository Oct. 625/1 The kingdom of God is a vineyard; and there is hedging work, and planting work, and watering work, and pruning work.
1994 Mod. Asian Stud. 28 231 The idea of employing shifting cultivators to do the planting work gained favour with forest officials.
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planting attorney n. now historical (in the Caribbean) the manager of a plantation or estate.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farmer > [noun] > farm worker > overseer > on plantation
pen-keeper1704
planting attorney1832
1832 M. Scott Tom Cringle's Log in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. June 886/1 A Mr. Francis Fyall, (a great planting attorney, that is, an agent for a number of proprietors of estates, who preferred living in England, and paying a commission to him for managing in Jamaica, to facing the climate themselves).
1858 H. Bleby Speech on Results of Emancipation 23 One of those great planting attorneys, who had some fifty or sixty large estates under his care, made it his boast..after the act of emancipation came into force, that he made those estates pay well, because he cheated the people out of half their wages, by one method or another.
1956 H. G. de Lisser Cup & Lip i. 19 Arthur was earnest at his work as his uncle's planting attorney.
1995 K. M. Butler Econ. Emancipation vi. 106 Ellcock, Alleyne, and Forster, all family names of prominent planters or planting attorneys who were among the wealthiest in nineteenth-century Barbados.
planting ground n. (a) a place where crops are planted; (b) a place where oysters are sown or planted.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land raising crops > [noun] > land for sowing or planting
seed field1222
planting ground1636
1636 in G. F. Dow Probate Rec. Essex County, Mass. (1916) I. 4 6 acres of planting ground.
1796 J. G. Stedman Narr. Exped. Surinam II. xxix. 354 The planting ground..is divided into large square pieces.
1879 Scribner's Monthly Dec. 234/1 Eventually, with the extension of internal communication and the increased demands for planting-grounds, they secure enormous profits.
1996 Marine Fisheries Rev. (Nexis) 22 Sept. New Jersey's oyster grounds consist of 20,000 acres of public seed beds in the upper narrow portion of the bay, and 30,000 acres of planting grounds in Maurice River Cove.
1999 New Eng. Q. 72 286 Clearly Wadononamin would not have sacrificed such valuable land..unless he had had other planting grounds, habitations, and hunting territory available to him elsewhere.
planting plough n. a type of paring plough used to prepare stony, shrubby, or otherwise difficult soils for planting.
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1831 On Planting (Libr. Useful Knowl.) v. 56 For the preparation of heath soils, incumbent on sand or loose gravel, an improved paring plough.., which we call Fyshe Palmer's planting plough, is a valuable implement.
1848 Sci. Amer. 28 Oct. 44/4 To A. B. Earle, of Colesville, N. Y. for improvement in Planting Ploughs. Patented Oct. 17, 1848.
1950 Daily Register (Harrisburg, Illinois) 2 May 1/6 This past winter the forest service bought a De Nuyl planting plow, to be used with a tractor.
planting stick n. a dibble.
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the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > sowing and planting equipment > [noun] > dibber
dibblec1450
planting stick1552
setting-stick1553
thivel1691
dibber1736
kippeen1830
dibbler1847
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Plantynge stycke or debyll, pastinum.
1719 G. London & H. Wise J. de la Quintinie's Compl. Gard'ner (ed. 7) 215 We make with a planting-stick, holes about four Inches deep.
1892 Amer. Anthropologist 5 316 Moving his planting stick around and toward the left..he digs a hole to the left of and slightly below..the northern hole.
1989 Afr. Affairs 88 370 They practice shifting cultivation using the hoe, the digging stick, the planting stick and the sickle.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
plantingadj.
/ˈplɑːntɪŋ/, /ˈplantɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈplæn(t)ɪŋ/ 1. That plants trees, shrubs, or other growing things; disposed to such planting. Also figurative.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > planting > [adjective]
planting1715
1715 S. Switzer Nobleman, Gentleman, & Gardener's Recreation vii. 198 This will also instruct us in a Method not yet much in Practice amongst us here (tho' I suppose it to be in Herefordshire, and other planting Countries) of laying at least two Foot thickness of Earth upon the Roots of new planted Trees.
1827 H. Steuart Planter's Guide (1828) 1 A ‘Planting Nation’, or, to speak with more correctness, a ‘Nation of Planters’.
1897 Daily Republican (Decatur, Illinois) 10 June It is a gratifying thought that we are more and more becoming a tree-planting nation.
1993 Amer. Papermaker (Nexis) 56 23 Foreign investors at the moment apparently see no market justification for pioneering additional plantations or pulp mills outside the five major planting nations on the continent.
2002 Independent (Nexis) 4 Apr. 1 The world's last colonial war—between a settlement-planting nation and an occupied people.
2. That owns or cultivates a plantation.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farmer > [adjective] > cultivating plantations
planting1856
1856 F. L. Olmsted Journey Slave States 272 From the beginning the planting aristocracy had merely been living on its capital.
1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 27 May 2/2 On behalf of the Queensland planting community.
1893 Westm. Gaz. 25 Sept. 3/1 Those who in the seventeenth century brought slavery into the planting colonies.
1955 L. B. Dewitt Meaning of Amer. i. 11 The Free State of Maryland, once a planting colony cleft by Chesapeake, is now divided as sharply between industrial Baltimore and farmers and fishermen.
1972 B. Fladeland Men & Brothers i. 22 Benezet was cheered by the fact that such an address could come from a planting colony, and he found hope in thinking that the iniquity was being noticed even by the ‘lordly oppressors themselves’.
2004 Financial Express (Nexis) 24 May The planting community is directly impacted by falling world prices... The financial sector must understand the cyclic cropping pattern of coffee.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > stealing animals > [adjective] > stealing cattle
planting1876
1876 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer xx, in Austral. Town & Country Jrnl. (Sydney) 30 Dec. 1062/4 That planting rascal Joe.
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