Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To lay bare in cultivation, as the roots of trees.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To lay bare, as the roots of a tree.
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From Latin ablaqueātus ("loosened, dug up"), past participle of ablaqueō ("to disentangle"), formed from ab- + laqueō ("noose").
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Examples
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For example, Ablaqueate (to loosen ground around roots): ` Absalom, come up from the lake and help me ablaqueate. "'
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