Definition of Sappling

1. sapple [v] - See also: sapple

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sappling

sapphisms
sapphists
sappho
sapphyrin
sapphyrins
sappier
sappiest
sappily
sappiness
sappinesses
sapping
sapple
sappled
sapples
sappling (current term)
sappodilla
sappodillas
sappy
sapr-
sapraemia
sapraemias
sapremia
sapremias
sapremic
saprists
sapro-
saprobe
saprobes
saprobial

Literary usage of Sappling

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. History of the Parish of Chipping, in the County of Lancaster: With Some by Thomas Charles Smith (1894)
"There are also 500 sappling stubbs, a great part whereof are old, rotten, ... On the north and west part of the lees are in sappling trees 9 score which be ..."

2. Selections from Early American Writers, 1607-1800 by William B. Cairns (1909)
"Simple sappling. Silvia's good natur'd, and no doubt will yield, And take the brawny vet'rans to her board, When she's assur'd 'twill help her husband's ..."

3. Selections from Early American Writers, 1607-1800 by William B. Cairns (1909)
"A LOYALIST DIALOGUE [From "The Group," Act II, Scene III'] Simple sappling. Though my paternal Acres are eat up, My patrimony spent, I've yet an house My ..."

4. Red Men of the Ohio Valley: An Aboriginal History of the Period Commencing A by Jacob Richards Dodge (1860)
"To catch raccoons, a trap was made by placing one sappling upon another, driving in posts to keep them from rolling, raising one end, so that the raccoon's ..."

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