disbranch

[ dis-branch, -brahnch ]

verb (used with object)

1. to break or cut (a branch) off a tree or shrub.
2. to detach a branch from (a tree or shrub).

disbranch

/ dɪsˈbrɑːntʃ /

verb

1. tr to remove or cut a branch or branches from (a tree)

Example Sentences

Disbranch, dis-bransh′, v.t. to break off, as a branch from a tree: to sever.

From Project Gutenberg

Of all the trees which grow in our woods, there is none which does better suffer the transplantation than the elm; for you may remove a tree of twenty years growth with undoubted success: It is an experiment I have made in a tree almost as big more as my waste; but then you must totally disbranch him, leaving only the summit intire; and being careful to take him up with as much earth as you can, refresh him with abundance of water.

From Project Gutenberg

From whence they thrive very well, the shoots being of the scantlings of small wands and switches, or somewhat bigger, and such as have drawn divers hairy twigs, which are by no means to be disbranch’d, no more than their roots, unless by a very sparing and discreet hand.

From Project Gutenberg

I fear your disposition: That nature which contemns it origin Cannot be bordered certain in itself; She that herself will sliver and disbranch From her material sap, perforce must wither And come to deadly use.

From Project Gutenberg