vbl. sb. [f. as prec. + -ING1.] The action of the vb. TRANSPLANT in various senses.
1608. in Buccleuch MSS. (Hist. MSS. Comm.), 77. The natives … will be at no charges in transplanting thither.
1655. Fuller, Ch. Hist., X. Ded. Plants are much meliorated by transplanting.
1790. Paley, Horæ Paul., i. 2. The immediate transplanting of names and circumstances out of one writing into the other.
1883. G. B. Goode, Fish. Indust. U.S., 14 (Fish. Exhib. Publ.). The transplanting of fish was practised … at the close of the last century.
1906. Daily Chron., 22 Sept., 6/7. Professor Garré, of Breslau, delivered an interesting lecture on the transplanting of blood vessels and organs.
b. concr. That which is transplanted.
1889. Lancet, 20 April, 801/1. Such colonies become so intimately fused with others that not seldom the transplantings from them turn out impure.
c. attrib. as transplanting machine, wagon, etc.
1786. Abercrombie, Gard. Assist., 172. The transplanting kinds, as cabbage, savoys, broccoli, celery, endive.
1827. Steuart, Planter’s G. (1828), 182. The best and simplest transplanting machine now known. Ibid., 223. A cursory idea of my own Transplanting Nurseries.
1877. Knight, Dict. Mech., Transplanting-apparatus, a machine or truck for removing trees for replanting. Ibid. (1884), Suppl., Transplanting Wagon.
1904. R. Small, Hist. U. P. Congregat., I. 19. He was now [in 1841] beyond the transplanting age.
