Crossword clues for sapling
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
sapling \sap"ling\, n.
A young tree.
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 14c., from sap (n.1) + diminutive suffix -ling. This probably is the source of American English slang sap (n.3) "club, short staff" (1899) and the verb sap (v.2) "to hit (someone) with a sap" (1926).
Wiktionary
n. 1 A young tree, but bigger than a seedling. 2 (context figuratively English) A youngster, especially a male nearing maturity.
WordNet
n. young tree
Usage examples of "sapling".
His lance was done for, until he could either give the head of it back to a good armorer or find an appropriate hickory sapling.
They began to circle the dense grove of saplings and vines, wed aware that ho Bem could be far ahead by the time they found a way.
He was a lean, wiry figure, barely taller than Bunion, skin as brown and grainy as the bark of a sapling, hair grown thick down the back of his neck and along his arms.
At the top of these are the cryptomeria, then two grassy walks, and between these and the cultivation a screen of saplings and brushwood.
Somehow the cravat and sapling had disappeared, and she saw that Dom was busy tracing a fingertip over the swell of her breast where it was trying to escape her insufficient robe.
Instead of driving the hather toward the trail, he swung toward the stand of saplings.
As the hather staggered to its feet, Xenon tethered it to a sapling and turned his attention to the catamint.
His sword screamed and crashed, hewing enemies as a woodman hews saplings, a blur of blue flame in the night.
There was a group of masked Ironheads off in a copse of young trees, destroying as many of the saplings as they could, firing point-blank at their trunks with blasters.
The turning down to Launde Park was five hundred metres past the end of the tanbark oak saplings.
We sat under a clump of mulga saplings, with our backs to the trunks, and got out our pipes.
Through the grayness Gees could see the narrow line of beech and elm trees which the worthies of Odder designated a wood, an unkempt shrubbery running parallel with the graveled drive to the gateway, with thick undergrowth of brushwood and saplings.
In fact, the light dazzling between the saplings gave the moment a powerful poignancy as she tossed her clothes aside and stood, as slender as a taper.
When Sapling threw the spear, it hissed through the air, oscillating slightly.
As Sapling hauled the throwing stick forward, the great force it applied to the spear made it bend: the spear, flexing, actually seemed to leap away, like a gazelle escaping a trap.