pruningn.¹

Brit.

/ˈpruːnɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈprunɪŋ/

Forms: see prune v.¹ and -ing suffix¹; also 1600s pruining.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: prune v.¹, -ing suffix¹.

Etymology: < prune v.¹ + -ing suffix¹.

1. Of a bird: the action of preening the feathers. See prune v.¹ 1. Now rare.

ΚΠ

a1475 Bk. Hawking (Harl. 2340) in Studia Neophilol. (1944) 16 11 Put her oute agayne to prowne and spalch herself, and a non after þat proynynge draw here in agayn.

1486 Bk. St. Albans sig. A vj An hawke wolde not be letted of hir proynyng.

1555 L. Digges Prognostication Right Good Effect sig. Bij^v If they busy them selues in proyning or washing..looke for rayne.

?1578 W. Patten Let. Entertainm. Killingwoorth 70 Holly treez for pearching & proyning set within.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Onction feable, the pruining, or annointing which a Hawke giues her feathers, by the moisture she sucks from her Crupper.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 241 Trick and Trym, her self, is when the Hawk with her Beak doth lay her Feathers even and smooth, of some termed Proyning.

1766 E. Capell Refl. Originality in Authors 20 To assert there is anything here like pruning of wings is a ridiculous hypercriticism.

1807 C. A. Dorset Peacock at Home 6 Such ruffling of feathers, such pruning of coats, Such chirping, such whistling, such clearing of throats.

1885 Atlantic Monthly Oct. 540/2 At about two o'clock it cleared, and after much pruning and dressing of feathers, number six flew successfully, reaching a still different tree.

†2. Of a person: the action of tidying or smartening the hair, clothes, etc.; an instance of this. See prune v.¹ 2. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1589 L. Wright Display of Dutie 41 Be answerable as abilitie shall serue, in working his [sc. God's] will: which is not, in crisping and curling: frisking and frounsing: painting and proining: to better your beauty with strange trim attyre.

1607 T. Middleton Michaelmas Terme ii. Sig. C3^v Those partes that are couered of him, lookes indifferent well, because we cannot see e'm else for all his clensing, pruning and paring, hee's not worthy a Brokers Daughter, and so tell him.

a1652 A. Wilson Inconstant Lady (1814) ii. ii. 36 Your prunings, paintings, and bare necks.

†3. figurative. Something left over, discarded, or unwanted. Obsolete. rare.Apparently a concrete use from sense 1, the image perhaps being that of feathers discarded after a bird has preened itself; tyr'd in the following clause is a term used in falconry (cf. tire v.² 2).

ΚΠ

a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Loves Pilgrimage iii. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Bbbbbbbb3^v/2 Dare she think..My love so fond..That I must take her prewnings; stoop at that She has tyr'd upon.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

pruningn.²

Brit.

/ˈpruːnɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈprunɪŋ/

Forms: see prune v.² and -ing suffix¹.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: prune v.², -ing suffix¹.

Etymology: < prune v.² + -ing suffix¹.

a. The action of prune v.² 1; the trimming or cutting back of a plant.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [noun] > pruning or lopping

shreddingc1000

putation?1440

snathing1485

loppingc1511

brushing1513

topping1513

twisting1535

pruning1548

heading1552

browsing1574

lop1575

disbranching1600

debranching1601

stocking1611

stowing1618

polling1626

supputation1656

summer pruning1669

snedding1720

shrouding1725

pollarding1794

thinning1800

brashing1950

1548 T. Cooper Bibliotheca Eliotæ (rev. ed.) Castratio arborum, the ofte cuttyng or prunyng of trees.

1576 T. Newton tr. L. Lemnie Touchstone of Complexions ii. f. 135 Fruictlesse trees, by pruning and industrie are made fruictfull.

1615 W. Lawson Country Housewifes Garden (1626) 6 Trees..loaden with wood, for want of proyning.

1664 J. Evelyn Sylva xxviii. 77 Lastly, Frondation or the taking off some of the luxuriant branches and sprays, of such Trees..is a kind of pruning.

1706 G. London & H. Wise Retir'd Gard'ner I. ii. 108 Pruning makes a tree look handsome.

1768 J. Gibson Fruit-gardener 208 Early pruning is commonly recommended for weak trees.

1858 G. Glenny Gardener's Every-day Bk. (new ed.) 50/2 Pruning is better done in the latter months of the year, when the leaves have fallen.

1895 Meehan's Monthly May 87/1 Summer pruning is especially effective with coniferous trees.

1941 P. P. Pirone Maintenance of Shade & Ornamental Trees v. 58 Proper and systematic pruning helps trees better to withstand adverse environmental conditions.

1991 Gardener Jan. 34/2 Apart from keeping young plants alive, the most important piece of aftercare is pruning.

b. concrete (usually in plural). Branches, twigs, etc., cut off by pruning.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [noun] > pruning or lopping > prunings or loppings

shreddingc950

trouse978

stickc1175

rammelc1250

spray1297

brush1330

shriding1340

shridels1399

lopc1420

shraggingc1440

shroud1475

tops1485

polling1557

brutting1577

lopping1589

pruning1658

toppings1668

scorel1671

loppage1683

lop-wood1693

shrouding1725

cropping1768

1658 J. Evelyn tr. N. de Bonnefons French Gardiner 73 The Prunings of the Pomme de Parradis, which they call the Scion, will also take in Layers.

1696 C. Trotter Agnes de Castro i. ii. 4 Banish these Fears, they may prove Fatal to you, Light Jealousies, like Prunings to a Plant.

a1735 Earl of Haddington Treat. Manner Raising Forest Trees (1761) 23 How often they repeat this operation, or what use they turn these prunings to, I cannot tell.

1735 Bibliotheca Biblica V. xv. 260 Things of a Personal or Restrained Commodity and Property; as a Corner of the Field, Prunings, Gleanings, Tithes; which the law made the Property of the Native Jews.

1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Sneddins, the prunings, or twigs, lopped off from trees.

1884 E. P. Roe Nature's Serial Story vii The prunings of the shrubbery.

1932 Econ. Geogr. 8 59/1 Weeds, leaves, and prunings from coffee trees.

1991 Pract. Gardening Dec. 40/1 We have bought a tractor-driven wood-chopper to process our prunings and cuttings.

2. figurative. The reduction or cutting back of anything; the removal of undesirable or superfluous elements; an instance of this.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > curtailment > of anything superfluous

pruning1561

recision1606

1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. iv. xiv. f. 97 The whole nature of man, is corrupte, and hath nede of proyning.

a1603 Queen Elizabeth in J. Nichols Progresses Queen Elizabeth (1823) I. 10 I plucke up the goodlisome herbs of sentences by pruning.

1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 293 Naturall Abilities are like Naturall Plants, that need Proyning by Study.

1689 C. Mather Small Offers toward Service of Tabernacle 116 Our Afflictions are the purgings & the prunings bestow'd by our God upon us.

1773 F. Gentleman Introd. Shakespeare's Plays 8 This fear was, lest the prunings, transpositions, or other alterations, which, in his province as a manager he had often found necessary to make..might be misconstrued.

1787 G. Gregory tr. R. Lowth Lect. Sacred Poetry Hebrews I. ii. xvii. 370 It is this which is strictly meant by Aristotle, when he speaks of the pruning of the passions.

1825 J. Clare Let. 19 June (1985) 333 Such for instance as ‘Spring’ for April which I consider as one of my best Poems when it has undergone your pruning for it wants a good deal to avoid repetitions.

1885 Manch. Examiner 13 July 5/3 These luxuriant growths of Liberal aspirations will stand pruning.

1907 Nation (N.Y.) 23 Nov. 271/1 The prunings and chastenings of his fancy.

1966 T. Lupton Managem. & Social Sci. ii. 47 A drastic alteration of working practices and some pruning of manpower.

1994 Amer. Spectator Apr. 64/3 Michnik opposes any de-Communization..to say nothing of the systematic pruning carried out in East Germany.

Compounds

C1. General attributive, in the names of tools or implements used in pruning.

pruning chisel n.

ΚΠ

1845 Independent Amer. & Gen. Advertiser (Platteville, Wisconsin Territory) 25 Jan. A choice lot Scissors and Shears, Nails, Hammers, Chisels, Pruning chisels.

1939 Times 4 Sept. 15/6 On an estate in Gloucestershire a pruning chisel is used.

pruning saw n.

ΚΠ

1822 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Gardening ii. iii. 319 The Pruning-Saw is a blade of steel, serrated in what is called the double manner on one side.

1930 Science 1 Aug. 114/2 A narrow, fine-toothed orchardist's pruning saw.

1994 Harrowsmith Country Life Dec. 38/1 The most versatile pruning saws..have tapered, curved blades.

pruning scissors n.

ΚΠ

1854 Watertown (Wisconsin) Weekly Reg. 8 July 132/3 Supposing these operations are to be performed on wood one year old, the pruning scissors and a knife are all the tools required.

1924 G. Bell Let. 27 Mar. (1927) II. xxiii. 692 He wants another pair of pruning scissors.

2005 Record (Kitchener-Waterloo, Ont.) (Nexis) 24 Nov. e2 Grab the pruning scissors and head out to your garden to snip and gather branches, berries and other appealing natural materials.

pruning shears n.

ΚΠ

?1780 C. Marshall Introd. Eng. Tongue (ed. 5) (front matter) The Props, Pruning Shears, and Watering Pot, shew that Youth needs to be supported, governed and cherished.

1822 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Gardening ii. iii. 320 The Pruning-Shears differ from the common sort, in having a moveable centre for the motion of one of the blades, by which means, instead of a crushing-cut, they make a draw-cut.

1994 Harrowsmith Country Life Dec. 35/3 We use..pruning shears for small branches.

C2.

pruning bill n. now rare a hand-held cutting tool with a hooked blade, used in pruning; cf. bill n.¹ 4.

ΚΠ

1614 G. Markham 2nd Bk. Eng. Husbandman ii. iii. 60 With a sharpe pruning Bill cut euery seuerall branch of the roote within a finger or two of the stocke.

1737 tr. F. Rabelais Wks. III. iii. 138 He goeth, before God, as surely damned to thirty thousand Baskets full of Devils, as a Pruning-Bill to the lopping of a Vine-Branch.

1822 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Gardening ii. iii. 319 The Pruning-Bill is generally a hooked blade..attached to a handle of from one to four feet in length.

1976 Jrnl. Sociol. 82 257 In the summer of 1835 a peasant youth, Pierre Rivière, killed his mother, sister, and brother with a pruning bill.

† pruning pains n. Obsolete rare care or trouble taken over pruning.

ΚΠ

c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme lxxx. 19 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 116 Thou..Nor planting care didst slack, nor pruning paines.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

pruningadj.

Brit.

/ˈpruːnɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈprunɪŋ/

Forms: 1600s pruneing, 1700s– pruning.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: prune v.², -ing suffix².

Etymology: < prune v.² + -ing suffix².

That prunes; that trims or reduces something.

ΚΠ

a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry IV cccxxv, in Poems (1878) IV. 82 Soe stands the vineyard of Humanitye..Where pruneing Lawes lye by.

1728 J. Gardiner tr. R. Rapin Of Gardens (ed. 3) iv. 186 Your Swain then, e'er their Limbs with Age are stay'd, Should trim, and form 'em with his pruning Blade.

1791 C. Kearsley Stranger's Guide 190 The pruning hand of the late Mr. Brown has, by his present Majesty's command, entirely changed the face of these gardens.

1840 R. H. Barham Lay St. Nicholas in Ingoldsby Legends 1st Ser. iv. 58 Under the pruning and training hand of a skilful master.

1945 Times 25 Apr. 5/2 There will be no disposition to resent the Treasury's pruning hand if it is clear that Treasury's policy itself is founded on a clear understanding of the real economic aims.

2002 Sault Star (Sault Saint Marie, Ont.) (Nexis) 23 Nov. b7 The browsing by deer has a pruning effect on the trees.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

n.¹a1475

n.²1548

adj.a1657

单词	pruning
释义	pruningn.¹ Brit. /ˈpruːnɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈprunɪŋ/ Forms: see prune v.¹ and -ing suffix¹; also 1600s pruining. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: prune v.¹, -ing suffix¹. Etymology: < prune v.¹ + -ing suffix¹. 1. Of a bird: the action of preening the feathers. See prune v.¹ 1. Now rare. ΚΠ a1475 Bk. Hawking (Harl. 2340) in Studia Neophilol. (1944) 16 11 Put her oute agayne to prowne and spalch herself, and a non after þat proynynge draw here in agayn. 1486 Bk. St. Albans sig. A vj An hawke wolde not be letted of hir proynyng. 1555 L. Digges Prognostication Right Good Effect sig. Bij^v If they busy them selues in proyning or washing..looke for rayne. ?1578 W. Patten Let. Entertainm. Killingwoorth 70 Holly treez for pearching & proyning set within. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Onction feable, the pruining, or annointing which a Hawke giues her feathers, by the moisture she sucks from her Crupper. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 241 Trick and Trym, her self, is when the Hawk with her Beak doth lay her Feathers even and smooth, of some termed Proyning. 1766 E. Capell Refl. Originality in Authors 20 To assert there is anything here like pruning of wings is a ridiculous hypercriticism. 1807 C. A. Dorset Peacock at Home 6 Such ruffling of feathers, such pruning of coats, Such chirping, such whistling, such clearing of throats. 1885 Atlantic Monthly Oct. 540/2 At about two o'clock it cleared, and after much pruning and dressing of feathers, number six flew successfully, reaching a still different tree. †2. Of a person: the action of tidying or smartening the hair, clothes, etc.; an instance of this. See prune v.¹ 2. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1589 L. Wright Display of Dutie 41 Be answerable as abilitie shall serue, in working his [sc. God's] will: which is not, in crisping and curling: frisking and frounsing: painting and proining: to better your beauty with strange trim attyre. 1607 T. Middleton Michaelmas Terme ii. Sig. C3^v Those partes that are couered of him, lookes indifferent well, because we cannot see e'm else for all his clensing, pruning and paring, hee's not worthy a Brokers Daughter, and so tell him. a1652 A. Wilson Inconstant Lady (1814) ii. ii. 36 Your prunings, paintings, and bare necks. †3. figurative. Something left over, discarded, or unwanted. Obsolete. rare.Apparently a concrete use from sense 1, the image perhaps being that of feathers discarded after a bird has preened itself; tyr'd in the following clause is a term used in falconry (cf. tire v.² 2). ΚΠ a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Loves Pilgrimage iii. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Bbbbbbbb3^v/2 Dare she think..My love so fond..That I must take her prewnings; stoop at that She has tyr'd upon. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). pruningn.² Brit. /ˈpruːnɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈprunɪŋ/ Forms: see prune v.² and -ing suffix¹. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: prune v.², -ing suffix¹. Etymology: < prune v.² + -ing suffix¹. 1. a. The action of prune v.² 1; the trimming or cutting back of a plant. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [noun] > pruning or lopping shreddingc1000 putation?1440 snathing1485 loppingc1511 brushing1513 topping1513 twisting1535 pruning1548 heading1552 browsing1574 lop1575 disbranching1600 debranching1601 stocking1611 stowing1618 polling1626 supputation1656 summer pruning1669 snedding1720 shrouding1725 pollarding1794 thinning1800 brashing1950 1548 T. Cooper Bibliotheca Eliotæ (rev. ed.) Castratio arborum, the ofte cuttyng or prunyng of trees. 1576 T. Newton tr. L. Lemnie Touchstone of Complexions ii. f. 135 Fruictlesse trees, by pruning and industrie are made fruictfull. 1615 W. Lawson Country Housewifes Garden (1626) 6 Trees..loaden with wood, for want of proyning. 1664 J. Evelyn Sylva xxviii. 77 Lastly, Frondation or the taking off some of the luxuriant branches and sprays, of such Trees..is a kind of pruning. 1706 G. London & H. Wise Retir'd Gard'ner I. ii. 108 Pruning makes a tree look handsome. 1768 J. Gibson Fruit-gardener 208 Early pruning is commonly recommended for weak trees. 1858 G. Glenny Gardener's Every-day Bk. (new ed.) 50/2 Pruning is better done in the latter months of the year, when the leaves have fallen. 1895 Meehan's Monthly May 87/1 Summer pruning is especially effective with coniferous trees. 1941 P. P. Pirone Maintenance of Shade & Ornamental Trees v. 58 Proper and systematic pruning helps trees better to withstand adverse environmental conditions. 1991 Gardener Jan. 34/2 Apart from keeping young plants alive, the most important piece of aftercare is pruning. b. concrete (usually in plural). Branches, twigs, etc., cut off by pruning. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [noun] > pruning or lopping > prunings or loppings shreddingc950 trouse978 stickc1175 rammelc1250 spray1297 brush1330 shriding1340 shridels1399 lopc1420 shraggingc1440 shroud1475 tops1485 polling1557 brutting1577 lopping1589 pruning1658 toppings1668 scorel1671 loppage1683 lop-wood1693 shrouding1725 cropping1768 1658 J. Evelyn tr. N. de Bonnefons French Gardiner 73 The Prunings of the Pomme de Parradis, which they call the Scion, will also take in Layers. 1696 C. Trotter Agnes de Castro i. ii. 4 Banish these Fears, they may prove Fatal to you, Light Jealousies, like Prunings to a Plant. a1735 Earl of Haddington Treat. Manner Raising Forest Trees (1761) 23 How often they repeat this operation, or what use they turn these prunings to, I cannot tell. 1735 Bibliotheca Biblica V. xv. 260 Things of a Personal or Restrained Commodity and Property; as a Corner of the Field, Prunings, Gleanings, Tithes; which the law made the Property of the Native Jews. 1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Sneddins, the prunings, or twigs, lopped off from trees. 1884 E. P. Roe Nature's Serial Story vii The prunings of the shrubbery. 1932 Econ. Geogr. 8 59/1 Weeds, leaves, and prunings from coffee trees. 1991 Pract. Gardening Dec. 40/1 We have bought a tractor-driven wood-chopper to process our prunings and cuttings. 2. figurative. The reduction or cutting back of anything; the removal of undesirable or superfluous elements; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > curtailment > of anything superfluous pruning1561 recision1606 1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. iv. xiv. f. 97 The whole nature of man, is corrupte, and hath nede of proyning. a1603 Queen Elizabeth in J. Nichols Progresses Queen Elizabeth (1823) I. 10 I plucke up the goodlisome herbs of sentences by pruning. 1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 293 Naturall Abilities are like Naturall Plants, that need Proyning by Study. 1689 C. Mather Small Offers toward Service of Tabernacle 116 Our Afflictions are the purgings & the prunings bestow'd by our God upon us. 1773 F. Gentleman Introd. Shakespeare's Plays 8 This fear was, lest the prunings, transpositions, or other alterations, which, in his province as a manager he had often found necessary to make..might be misconstrued. 1787 G. Gregory tr. R. Lowth Lect. Sacred Poetry Hebrews I. ii. xvii. 370 It is this which is strictly meant by Aristotle, when he speaks of the pruning of the passions. 1825 J. Clare Let. 19 June (1985) 333 Such for instance as ‘Spring’ for April which I consider as one of my best Poems when it has undergone your pruning for it wants a good deal to avoid repetitions. 1885 Manch. Examiner 13 July 5/3 These luxuriant growths of Liberal aspirations will stand pruning. 1907 Nation (N.Y.) 23 Nov. 271/1 The prunings and chastenings of his fancy. 1966 T. Lupton Managem. & Social Sci. ii. 47 A drastic alteration of working practices and some pruning of manpower. 1994 Amer. Spectator Apr. 64/3 Michnik opposes any de-Communization..to say nothing of the systematic pruning carried out in East Germany. Compounds C1. General attributive, in the names of tools or implements used in pruning. pruning chisel n. ΚΠ 1845 Independent Amer. & Gen. Advertiser (Platteville, Wisconsin Territory) 25 Jan. A choice lot Scissors and Shears, Nails, Hammers, Chisels, Pruning chisels. 1939 Times 4 Sept. 15/6 On an estate in Gloucestershire a pruning chisel is used. pruning saw n. ΚΠ 1822 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Gardening ii. iii. 319 The Pruning-Saw is a blade of steel, serrated in what is called the double manner on one side. 1930 Science 1 Aug. 114/2 A narrow, fine-toothed orchardist's pruning saw. 1994 Harrowsmith Country Life Dec. 38/1 The most versatile pruning saws..have tapered, curved blades. pruning scissors n. ΚΠ 1854 Watertown (Wisconsin) Weekly Reg. 8 July 132/3 Supposing these operations are to be performed on wood one year old, the pruning scissors and a knife are all the tools required. 1924 G. Bell Let. 27 Mar. (1927) II. xxiii. 692 He wants another pair of pruning scissors. 2005 Record (Kitchener-Waterloo, Ont.) (Nexis) 24 Nov. e2 Grab the pruning scissors and head out to your garden to snip and gather branches, berries and other appealing natural materials. pruning shears n. ΚΠ ?1780 C. Marshall Introd. Eng. Tongue (ed. 5) (front matter) The Props, Pruning Shears, and Watering Pot, shew that Youth needs to be supported, governed and cherished. 1822 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Gardening ii. iii. 320 The Pruning-Shears differ from the common sort, in having a moveable centre for the motion of one of the blades, by which means, instead of a crushing-cut, they make a draw-cut. 1994 Harrowsmith Country Life Dec. 35/3 We use..pruning shears for small branches. C2. pruning bill n. now rare a hand-held cutting tool with a hooked blade, used in pruning; cf. bill n.¹ 4. ΚΠ 1614 G. Markham 2nd Bk. Eng. Husbandman ii. iii. 60 With a sharpe pruning Bill cut euery seuerall branch of the roote within a finger or two of the stocke. 1737 tr. F. Rabelais Wks. III. iii. 138 He goeth, before God, as surely damned to thirty thousand Baskets full of Devils, as a Pruning-Bill to the lopping of a Vine-Branch. 1822 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Gardening ii. iii. 319 The Pruning-Bill is generally a hooked blade..attached to a handle of from one to four feet in length. 1976 Jrnl. Sociol. 82 257 In the summer of 1835 a peasant youth, Pierre Rivière, killed his mother, sister, and brother with a pruning bill. † pruning pains n. Obsolete rare care or trouble taken over pruning. ΚΠ c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme lxxx. 19 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 116 Thou..Nor planting care didst slack, nor pruning paines. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). pruningadj. Brit. /ˈpruːnɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈprunɪŋ/ Forms: 1600s pruneing, 1700s– pruning. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: prune v.², -ing suffix². Etymology: < prune v.² + -ing suffix². That prunes; that trims or reduces something. ΚΠ a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry IV cccxxv, in Poems (1878) IV. 82 Soe stands the vineyard of Humanitye..Where pruneing Lawes lye by. 1728 J. Gardiner tr. R. Rapin Of Gardens (ed. 3) iv. 186 Your Swain then, e'er their Limbs with Age are stay'd, Should trim, and form 'em with his pruning Blade. 1791 C. Kearsley Stranger's Guide 190 The pruning hand of the late Mr. Brown has, by his present Majesty's command, entirely changed the face of these gardens. 1840 R. H. Barham Lay St. Nicholas in Ingoldsby Legends 1st Ser. iv. 58 Under the pruning and training hand of a skilful master. 1945 Times 25 Apr. 5/2 There will be no disposition to resent the Treasury's pruning hand if it is clear that Treasury's policy itself is founded on a clear understanding of the real economic aims. 2002 Sault Star (Sault Saint Marie, Ont.) (Nexis) 23 Nov. b7 The browsing by deer has a pruning effect on the trees. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹a1475n.²1548adj.a1657
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Compounds

pruningadj.

pruningn.¹

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