A young tree, shrub, vegetable, or flower newly planted, or intended for planting; a set, a cutting, a seedling. Now chiefly English regional (mid…

A young plant, a cutting, a seedling. Obsolete.

Living plants, esp. hawthorn, used for hedging; = quick, n.1 4a; quickset, n.1 1b. Chiefly attributive.

A twig, shoot, scion; gen. a branch, plant: = graft, n.1 2.

A twig, †a cutting of a tree.

A slip or cutting; a scion; a shoot or branch cut off. (Cf. slaving, n.1 and sleaving, n.)

A piece cut or taken from a plant, esp. for planting or for culinary use; a rod, a switch; a cutting, a set, a slip. Also figurative.

A knotty branch, scion, graft.

A slip taken from a tree by splitting or pulling.

A shoot or scion, such as is used in grafting.

As a mass noun (occasionally with plural agreement): living hedging plants, esp. hawthorns, esp. as young plants, cuttings, or seedlings. Cf. quickset…

The action or process of planting a quickset hedge (usually hawthorn). Also concrete: the plants used to make such a hedge collectively. Cf. quick…

A shoot or scion inserted in a groove or slit made in another stock, so as to allow the sap of the latter to circulate through the former.

As a mass noun: cuttings or young plants of this kind collectively; esp. hawthorn. Also figurative.

A twig, sprig, or small shoot taken from a plant, tree, etc., for the purpose of grafting or planting; a scion, cutting.

A slip taken from a tree and planted.

‘Any thing not sown, but put in a state of some growth into the ground’ (Johnson); a twig, slip, or sucker, used for planting or grafting; also, a…

a shoot (of willow, etc.) cut for planting; cf. sense 12b, pitcher, n.2 4.

A slip of a tree; = sleaving, n.

A length cut from a plant, esp. one used for grafting or planting; a stout cutting. Now rare.

A slip, scion.

A slip or cutting of a plant, cut under a joint with a small projecting knob left to form an eye.

A shoot or twig fastened down and covered with earth, used in propagating a plant; = layer, n. 3a.

Applied to parts of trees or plants.

? A cutting from a plant; in quots. figurative.

A short lateral shoot of a plant, esp. one from the lower stem, bulb, or corm, serving for propagation.

A cutting of a plant; a slip.

A cutting taken from a side shoot or lateral twig of a plant; a slip (slip, n.2 1a).

(See quot. 1823, and cf. sleaving, n.)

spec. A small shoot or branch bearing leaf-buds cut off a plant, and used for propagation.

A cutting, rod, or stake planted in the ground in order to take root. Cf. pitch, n.2 7b. Now British regional.

a mallet-shaped (vine) cutting.

a cutting taken from the root of a plant, used for propagation.

concrete in plural. (See quot. 1788.) Scottish.

Forestry and Horticulture. The base of a plant cut down to produce shoots or branches for layering. Also, a plant laid down for layering (rare).

English regional. = pitcher, n.2 4.

Horticulture. A piece of the main stem of a plant left attached to the base of a cutting.

A small piece cut off.

Horticulture. A cutting of a pink or carnation taken at the joint of a stem; the propagation of a pink, etc., by such a cutting.

Horticulture. A plant which has been pruned by cutting off shoots close back to the main stem.

a cutting consisting of a short cut-back stem and roots which may or may not be pruned.