transplanting, vbl. n.
(trɑːnsˈplɑːntɪŋ, træns-)
[f. as prec. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. transplant in various senses.
| 1608 in Buccleuch MSS. (Hist. MSS. Comm.) 77 The natives..will be at no charges in transplanting thither. 1655 Fuller Ch. Hist. x. Ded., Plants are much meliorated by transplanting. 1790 Paley Horæ Paul. i. 2 The immediate transplanting of names and circumstances out of one writing into the other. 1883 G. B. Goode Fish. Indust. U.S. 14 (Fish. Exhib. Publ.) The transplanting of fish was practised..at the close of the last century. 1906 Daily Chron. 22 Sept. 6/7 Professor Garré, of Breslau, delivered an interesting lecture on the transplanting of blood vessels and organs. |
b. concr. That which is transplanted.
| 1889 Lancet 20 Apr. 801/1 Such colonies become so intimately fused with others that not seldom the transplantings from them turn out impure. |
c. attrib. as transplanting machine, transplanting wagon, etc.
| 1786 Abercrombie Gard. Assist. 172 The transplanting kinds, as cabbage, savoys, broccoli, celery, endive. 1827 H. Steuart Planter's G. (1828) 182 The best and simplest transplanting machine now known. Ibid. 223 A cursory idea of my own Transplanting Nurseries. 1877 Knight Dict. Mech., Transplanting-apparatus, a machine or truck for removing trees for replanting. 1884 Ibid. Suppl., Transplanting Wagon. 1904 R. Small Hist. U.P. Congregat. I. 19 He was now [in 1841] beyond the transplanting age. |