[f. prec. sb.] trans. a. To train as an espalier. b. To furnish or surround with an espalier.
1810. Bp. Copleston, Repl. to Edin. Rev., in Mem. (1851), 329. We want not men who are clipped and espaliered into any form which the whim of the gardener may dictate.
1846. in Worcester; and in mod. Dicts.
Hence Espaliered ppl. a., Espaliering vbl. sb.
1856. Ruskin, Mod. Paint., IV. V. xi. § 9. Latticed and espaliered cottages.
1865. Miss Braddon, Doctor’s Wife, iii. There were roses and sweet-brier, espaliered apples.
1882. Jrnl. Derbysh. Archæol. Soc., IV. 154. He appears to be engaged in that form of training trees called espaliering.
