breast up

English

Verb

breast up (third-person singular simple present breasts up, present participle breasting up, simple past and past participle breasted up)

1. (transitive) To cut the face of (a hedge) on one side so as to lay bare the principal upright stems of the plants.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “breast up”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• superbat