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▪ I. ˈplanting, vbl. n.
[f. plant v. + -ing1.]
1. a. The action of the vb. plant, in various senses.
c1000ælfric's Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 149 Propaginatio, wintwiᵹa plantung. 1426Lydg. De Guil. Pilgr. 21791 But thow shalt ageyn retourne Toward the heggh off hyr plauntyng. 1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. i. xvii. 20 [They did] aduaunce their trenches and approaches for planting of their ordinance. 1625Bacon Ess., Plantations (Arb.) 530 Planting of Countries, is like Planting of Woods; For you must make account to leese almost Twenty yeeres Profit, and expect your Recompence, in the end. 1649Proc. Commiss. Gen. Assembly (1896) 285 Recommende to the Presbyterie the planting of that Kirk with diligence. 1702C. Mather (title) Magnalia Christi Americana: or, the Ecclesiastical History of New-england, from Its First Planting in the Year 1620. unto the Year..1698. 1818in Willis & Clark Cambridge (1886) I. 573 The planting of Clare Hall walk..with Ivy.
†b. Position, situation. Obs.
1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. i. xvii. 20 A hill, from whence we might easily see..the planting of their campe and their approches.
2. Concrete and collective uses.
†a. A slip, cutting, young plant, of a vine, etc.
c1000Ags. Gosp. Matt. xv. 13 ælc plantung þe min heofenlica fæder ne plantode byþ awurt-walod. 1382Wyclif Ps. cxliii. 12 Whos sones; as newe plauntingis in ther ȝouthe. ― Dan. xi. 7 A plauntyng shal stonde of the buriownyng of hir rootis.
b. A clump or bed of things planted; esp. a clump or wood of planted trees; a plantation. Chiefly Sc. and north. dial.
1632Lithgow Trav. x. 498 The delectable planure of Murray.., inriched with Cornes, Plantings, Pastorage. 1719De Foe Crusoe (1858) 385 If they offered to..destroy any of the corn, plantings, buildings. 1720Lond. Gaz. No. 5866/3 A considerable Quantity of well advanc'd Forest Planting. 1725Ramsay Gentle Sheph. v. iii, Busy gardeners shall new planting rear. 1812Sir J. Sinclair Syst. Husb. Scot. i. 44 Hedges are often accompanied with hedge-rows, and sometimes by what are called belts of planting. 1854H. Miller Sch. & Schm. (1858) 205 When the day was fine, I used to spend it by the side of a mossy stream..or in a neighbouring planting. 1891T. E. Kebbel Old & New Eng. Country Life 48 In the woods and plantings trees are being felled.
3. attrib. and Comb., as planting district, planting produce, planting season, planting work; planting-attorney, in the West Indies, the manager of a plantation or estate; planting-ground, (a) a place where crops are planted; (b) ‘a place where oysters are sown or planted’ (Cent. Dict.); planting-plough: see quot. 1832; planting-stick, a dibble.
1552Huloet, Plantynge stycke or debyll, pastinum. 1707Mortimer Husb. (1721) II. 269 Being cut off about the beginning of Planting-season, it will grow. 1719London & Wise Compl. Gard. 215 We make with a planting-stick, holes about four Inches deep. 1769E. Bancroft Guiana 369 He recurs to his planting-ground for his future provision. 1832Planting 56 in Libr. Usef. Knowl., Husb. III, 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. 1878J. Inglis Sport & W. xvii. 222 Let him leave the planting districts, and go up to the wastes of Oudh. 1953Caribbean Q. III. iii. 142 The planters and planting-attornies were worried about the continuation of estate labour after the slaves should be apprenticed. 1956H. G. de Lisser Cup & Lip i. 19 Arthur was earnest at his work as his uncle's planting attorney.
▪ II. ˈplanting, ppl. a.
[f. plant v. + -ing2.]
That plants.
1827H. Steuart Planter's G. (1828) 1 A ‘Planting Nation’, or, to speak with more correctness, a ‘Nation of Planters’.
b. Owning or cultivating plantations (in colonies or semi-tropical countries).
1856Olmsted Slave States 272 From the beginning the planting aristocracy had merely been living on its capital. 1884Pall Mall G. 27 May 2/2 On behalf of the Queensland planting community. 1893Westm. Gaz. 25 Sept. 3/1 Those who in the seventeenth century brought slavery into the planting colonies.
c. Cattle-stealing (Austral.): see plant v. 8.
1890‘R. Boldrewood’ Col. Reformer xx. II. 152 That planting rascal Joe. |