ppl. a.
1. Well stocked with growing plants.
a. 1703. Burkitt, On N. T., Mark xii. 8. A vineyard is a place enclosed, a place well planted, well fruited.
1872. Geo. Eliot, Middlem., lv. Where the fine old turf sloped … towards a lilied pool and well-planted mounds.
2. Of a blow or the like: Skilfully placed, directed or delivered.
1755. Smollett, Quix. (1803), IV. 271. Sancho … held out his face and beard to the first, who treated him with a well-planted twitch.
1847. C. Brontë, Jane Eyre, xxvi. He could have settled her with a well-planted blow.
