Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To bury a stock or branch of a vine in the ground and bring up the end at a distance from the root, to form a bearing plant for the next season. This system is extensively practised in the viticulture of several regions of France.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb obsolete To lay a stock or branch of a vine in the ground for propagation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete To lay a
stock orbranch of avine in the ground forpropagation .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Seriously, if you guys set your standards this high we're never getting any sequels to anything ever. provine
DVD Exclusives: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull | /Film 2008
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Of course, Shenzen is a long way from Sichuan provine where the earthquake is.
Nathan Gardels: China's Earthquake Casualties: Victims of Too-Rapid Growth? 2008
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Witnesses in the southeast provine of Katanga told Human Rights
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He said the project was part of government's systematic approach to develop the predominantly rural provine of the Eastern
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Izak Retief, spokesman for NP secretary-general Roelf Meyer, said he was not sure at what level the decision would be taken, but it could be done province by provine and would probably be discussed by the NP's federal council next week.
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Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini arrived here Wednesday for a four-day visit aimed at advancing cooperation between Mozambique and his neighbouring KwaZulu Natal provine ofSouth Africa.
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The meeting was attended by the ex-governor of the provine, and by all the principal men of the town, and was earnest, if not enthusiastic I delivered an address setting forth the advantages of education in general, and the special necessity of acquiring a knowledge of English; also showing the liberal purpose of the government on the subject of education.
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Kanbutsu-e provine din China, prima atestare documentară în Japonia a fost în anul 606, în Nara.
Anime Nano! 2010
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NATO admitted on Thursday that a helicopter mistakenly dropped military supplies in the wrong place in southern Afghanistan and that they had subsequently disappeared [...] "On March 25, a private helicopter company was contracted, on behalf of an ISAF unit, to resupply an Afghan National Police (ANP) outpost located in a remote mountain area" of Zabul provine, an ISAF statement said.
The Jawa Report 2009
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I wish the provine owned more land in the city so it would prevent alot of these projects from going on.
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