rogueing

Verb

rogue (third-person singular simple present rogues, present participle roguing or rogueing, simple past and past participle rogued)

1. To cull; to destroy plants not meeting a required standard, especially when saving seed, rogue or unwanted plants are removed before pollination.
   • Maintaining varieties also requires selection, however. It's usually referred to as culling or roguing. ...we examine the [plant] population and eliminate the occasional rogue.2000, Carol Deppe, Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties, Totnes: Chelsea Green Pub
2. (dated, transitive) To cheat.
   • And then to think that Mark should have rogued me of five shiners! He was clever—that's a fact.1883, Prairie Farmer, volume 55, page 29
3. (obsolete) To give the name or designation of rogue to; to decry.
   • he Atheists may endeavour to rogue and ridicule all incorporeal Substance1678, R[alph] Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: […]...
4. (intransitive, obsolete) To wander; to play the vagabond; to play knavish tricks.
   • if hee be but once so taken idlely roguing1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […], →OCLC; republished as A View of the State of Ireland […]...

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