transitive. To cut off or remove the ‘crop’ or head of (a plant, tree, etc.); to poll, to lop off the branches of (a tree).

To cut away, cut off; also = dag, v.1 3.

transitive. To shorten or reduce by cutting off a portion; to trim, clip, shear; to prune.

transitive. To cut a part off from; to cut short, truncate; to lop, clip, prune.

transitive. To poll, cut off the hair of, shear, clip, cut close. Ascham uses coul for ‘to pare or cut down the feather of an arrow’.

transitive. To dock, cut short.

As complement. to cut, trim,etc. short: to make short by cutting, trimming, etc.

figurative and in extended use. transitive. To cut back, trim, or reduce (anything); to remove something from (a person or thing); esp. to remove…

transitive. To dock the tail of; figurative to cut short, shorten, curtail.

To cut short in linear dimension; to shorten by cutting off a part.

transferred and figurative; esp. To cut off (a person's limbs or head). Also in general sense, to cut off, reduce by cutting. Also with adverbs as…

transitive. = decurt, v.

Falconry. To engraft feathers in the wing of a bird, so as to make good losses or deficiencies, and thus… Apparently by a misunderstanding of the…

transitive. To shorten or diminish by cutting off a part; to cut short; to maim, mutilate. Also figurative.

transitive. To reduce in magnitude or extent; to make (a physical object) shorter or smaller. Now rare.

To dock, cut short (a horse's tail, etc.). Also with off. ? U.S.