ablaqueating

Verb

ablaqueate (third-person singular simple present ablaqueates, present participle ablaqueating, simple past and past participle ablaqueated)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To lay bare, as the roots of a tree, by loosening or removing soil.
   • After the autumnal equinox they were to be ablaqueated like the vines. Every third year they were to be dunged, and after some years (generally the eighth) to be pruned; for there was an old saying, to wit, eum qui aret olivetum rogare fructum; qui stercoret exorare; qui caedat cogere.1847, Thomas Keightley, The Bucolics and Georgics of Virgil