To plant (ground) with ‘sets’ or (young) trees; formerly often with about. (Cf. 12.)

To plant with trees.

transitive. To afforest as an addition to an existing forest.

transitive. To cover (land) with wood, as trees; to plant with trees, convert into woodland.

transitive. To fit new timber to (a wall, mine shaft, house, etc.). Also: to reforest (land).

transitive. Chiefly British. To cover again with forest; to replant with trees; = reforest, v. 1.

transitive. To cover (land) again with forest; to replant with trees; = reafforest, v. 2.

transitive. To plant trees on (land); to convert (an area) into forest or woodland, now esp. for commercial use. Cf. forest, v. b.

transitive. To plant with trees, convert into a forest.

transitive. = reforest, v. 1.

transitive. To plant with trees. (Mostly in past participle; cf. treed, adj. 1.)