Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A wild apple-tree used as a stock to graft upon.
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Examples
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The worst and most twisted crabstock, if alive, possesses an active principle, which allows of successful grafting; not so with a dead branch.
Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819 John Hughes
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Wild grapes are the fruits of the corrupt nature, fruit according to the crabstock, not according to the engrafted branch, from the root of bitterness, Heb. xii.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721
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