The plant material eaten is known as browse and is naturally taken straight from the plant, though owners of livestock such as goats and deer may cut twigs or branches for feeding to the stock.
While we do this Nathan is off cutting birch twigs.
I use garden scissors to open up the plant's center and then to cut twigs to random heights.
More bullets flew past to cut leaves and twigs from the branches of other trees.
Most gardeners have good-quality pruning shears for cutting twigs from woody plant material.
Dr. Hendrickson will be back at Sagamore Hill on Dec. 22 with a crew to cut twigs and buds from the top branches of the copper beech and the other trees, and repeat the process once or twice next year.
Its bullets cut twigs from the limbs above him and made a thunk-thunk sound as they buried themselves in the trunk of the tree.
When trimming the shrubs, do not leave ugly stubs, but cut twigs and limbs back to main stems and trunks.
Bullets cut twigs, spaanged off stones.
The name of the tool is derived from the verb "to lop", meaning to cut branches or twigs, which in turn derives from the noun of precisely the same form: a "lop" is a period or session of branch cutting.
