pruning

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

PRU'NING, participle present tense Lopping off superfluous branches; trimming; clearing of what is superfluous. PRU'NING, noun In gardening and agriculture, the lopping off the superfluous branches of trees, either for improving the trees or their fruit.
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