Translation for "desmochar" to english

Desmochar

verb

• lop
• top
• poll

Translation examples

lop verb

Cogió una podadera de dos filos del cobertizo y, ayudado por una escalera, subió hasta la parte baja del árbol, donde comenzó a podar, o a «desmochar», como dicen en Hintock, las ramas inferiores.
He went out, and when afternoon came he returned, took a billhook from the woodman's shed, and with a ladder climbed into the lower part of the tree, where he began lopping off—"shrouding," as they called it at Hintock—the lowest boughs.

top verb

Me puse a desmochar el tabaco, arrancando de paso todos los gusanos que encontraba —que no eran pocos, por cierto, y algunos tan grandes como mi pulgar—.
I started topping the tobacco, pulling off what worms I found, a good many as it turned out, everyone of them big as my thumb.