shrig, v. dial.
(ʃrɪg)
[Cf. shrag.]
trans. To lop off (branches), strip off (leaves); to strip (a tree, root, etc.) of its branches or foliage; fig. to strip (a person) of his possessions.
| 1601 Holland Pliny xvii. xii. I. 514 If the braunches thereof, or of any tree within-forth be shrigged. Ibid. xix. vi. II. 21 Having their uppermost leaves lightly shrigged off. Ibid. xxvii. vi. 275 The same root..staieth a laske, in case it be first shrigged from the hairie strings thereof. 1609 ― Amm. Marcell. xix. x. 137 If all men were shrigged of their goods. 1873 W. P. Williams & W. A. Jones Gloss. Prov. Som., Shrig, to shroud or trim a tree. |