shrag

Etymology
Compare.

Noun

 * 1) A twig cut from a tree.

Verb

 * 1)  To cut or lop; to trim or prune (something, such as a tree).
 * 2) * 1552, Hulget:
 * Twygges or boughes of trees cut of[f], or shragged, Shragge vnder so that the sunne maye come to the ground,
 * 1) * James Wright, Rain / Edward Thomas (poem), quoted in Above the River: The Complete Poems (1990), page 19:
 * It is raining today in Steubenville. / Blessed be the dead whom the rain rains upon. / And damned the living who have their few days. / And blessed your thorned face, Your shragged November, / Your leaf, / Lost.
 * It is raining today in Steubenville. / Blessed be the dead whom the rain rains upon. / And damned the living who have their few days. / And blessed your thorned face, Your shragged November, / Your leaf, / Lost.