decerp

English

Etymology

From Latin decerpere, from de- + carpere (“to pluck”).

Verb

decerp (third-person singular simple present decerps, present participle decerping, simple past and past participle decerped)

1. (obsolete) To pluck off; to crop; to gather.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “decerp”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• creped, crêped