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ˈwhip-ˌgrafting Hort.
Also † -graffing.
[f. whip v. 2.]
(See quot. 1878.) Hence whip-graft v., trans. to graft in this way.
1657R. Austen Fruit-Trees (ed. 2) 47 marg., Second Way of Grafting, called whip-Grafting. 1660Sharrock Vegetables 63 The one of these wayes is called shoulder-grafting... The other Whip-grafting, because the operator only makes his streight-down right cut and tarryes not to indent it at all. 1675Worlidge Syst. Agric. (ed. 2) 115 Taking a Graft or Sprig of the Tree you designe to propagate, and a small piece of the Root of another Tree of the same kinde,..Whip-graft them together. 1719[see tongue-grafting s.v. tongue n. 16]. 1815,1842[see splice-grafting s.v. splice n. 3]. 1878Baltet Grafting etc. 112 The old-fashioned system of ‘whip-grafting’, employed in England in the case of some kinds of trees in preference to budding, on account of the inclemency of the climate. The stock is headed down and cut on one side only to receive the scion, which is cut with a long splice-cut and partially cleft or notched. |