longshoot

Noun

longshoot (countable and uncountable, plural longshoots)

1. A type of dredger that ejects sand and sediment through a long stream.
   • The working of the dredging machines improves every day, owing to the constant ameliorations in the various parts, and the increased experience of the crews; the conditions of labour have become much better now that the canal is open throughout its whole length, and that dredging is performed at...1869, The Economist - Volume 26, Issue 1 - Page 45
   • The section includes also combination bucket and suction dredges, true suction dredgers, the Friihling dredge, the reclamation dredge, the longshoot dredge, the hopper barge, the self-propelling hopper, and the rock cutter.1923, Marine Engineer and Naval Architect - Volume 46, page 162
2. A long unbranching section of growth.
   • It is likely that in future, standard meadow orchard applications will be with GA4/ 7 at 400 micrograms per ml painted on to buds with the potential to initiate strobili, at the time of longshoot differentiation.1990, Proceedings from Reproductive Processes Working Party S2.01-5
   • Some of this carbon may have been obtained at the expense of root and longshoot growth: the defoliated trees did not produce any longshoots, whereas the control trees did.2006, Jan Hoogesteger, Tree ring dynamics in mountain birch, page 20