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  • verb Present participle of espalier.

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  • A map of current and former spawning habitat in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Basin looks distressingly like a diagram for espaliering a three-year-old fruit tree; most of the branches are cut off nearly to the trunk.

    Coyote Crossing 2009

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