rare. [f. STOLE sb.3] intr. Of a plant: To develop stolons.
1824. Loudon, Encycl. Gard. (ed. 2), 1225/2. Succisæ repullulant, trees which stole, or which being cut over spring again.
1846. Mrs. Loudon, Gardening for Ladies, 80. The verb, to stole, which signifies the power most deciduous trees possess, of sending up new stems from the collar of their roots when cut down.
