shredare

shredare, ~ere [ME shreden < AS screadian] 1 to chop (branches or twigs cut from trees), to shred. 1381 [in aid in ‘shredding’] shridando [of the said brushwood at the rabbit warren ‥ and drawing it inside, 12 works] (Ac. Man.) EHR IX 431; 1397 pro xxxvj carectis meremii ‥ prostrandis et ~endis KR Ac 479/23; pro quercubus prostrand', ~and', et loppand' in bosco Ib.; 1400 arbores ‥ loppare, ~dare et fagatare (v. fagotare); loppare et ~are arbores ‥ et ligna sic loppata et ~ata Mod. Ten. Hund. A iiii (v. loppare b); 1570 lez shreddings [of such oaks as have been accustomed to be lopped] ~dari CalPat 81; 1589 omnes et omnimodos lez shreddinges omnium talium quercuum quales antetunc ~ari usi fuerunt aut consueverunt Pat 1334 m. 11. 2 to trim (millwheel; cf. shroudere 1b). 13‥ pro rota aquatica de Fordmelle ~enda (Ac. Little Chart) DCCant.; in rotis dicti molendini ~endis Ib.; in rota aquatica ‥ de novo facienda et sredenda Ib..