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sarment Now rare (Bot.).|ˈsɑːmənt|
[ad. L. sarmentum, chiefly in pl., twigs lopped off, brushwood, f. sarpĕre to prune, trim (trees, branches). Cf. F. sarment shoot of vine, woody climbing stem.]
A twig, † a cutting of a tree.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xix. xxxvi. (1495) 879 Cerusa..comyth of vapour of stronge vyneygre effusyd and shedde on thynne plates of leed and layed vpon whyte Sarmentes. c1440Pallad. on Husb. iv. 33 He..nygh the roote ingraffeth his sarment. Ibid. xii. 356. 1657 Physical Dict., Sarments, twigs of trees. 1766Smollett Trav. 176 [For lighting fires] the people of these countries use the sarments or cuttings of the vines. 1837Gray First Less. Bot. Gloss., Sarmentaceous, bearing long and flexible twigs (sarments), either spreading or procumbent. |