Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To inoculate or bud; propagate, as a tree or plant, by the insertion of a bud.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To ingraft, as a tree or plant, by the insertion of a bud or eye; to inoculate.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb transitive To innoculate or bud; ingraft or propagate (as a tree or plant) by the insertion of a bud.

Etymologies

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From Middle English *ineyen, eneyen, equivalent to in- +‎ eye.

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