transitive. To pull up or out. Now only dialect, to pull up (weeds); to weed (corn).

transitive. To clear (land, a crop, etc.) of weeds; to pull up or otherwise remove weeds from (land, a crop, etc.).

Often in specific (contextual) senses: e.g. to clear arable land of weeds, esp. of the roots of creeping plants; to clear a ship's bottom of…

transitive. To dig up or out, to remove, by means of a spud.

To cut off the tops of (weeds) without uprooting. local. (Cf. swinge, v.1 3.)

transitive. To clear of couch-grass.

transitive. To clear (land) of twitch or couch grass. Also intransitive.