Topiary: alternatives and connections

Sheeted home, hoisted taut up and ready for trimming; -- said of sails.

A narrow fabric, as of wool, silk, or linen, used for binding, trimming, or ornamenting dresses, etc.

Braids, collectively; trimming.

Tufted cord, of silk or worsted, for the trimming of ladies' dresses, for embroidery and fringes, and for the weft of Chenille rugs.

An ornamental cutting of the edges of garments, introduced about a. d. 1346, according to the Chronicles of St Albans.

To prepare for fighting, as a gamecock, by trimming the hackles and cutting off the comb and wattles.

That which forms an edge or border, as the fringe, trimming, etc., of a garment, or a border in a garden.

An uncovered cutting in the earth, in distinction from a covered cutting or tunnel.

A narrow ornamental fabric of silk, woolen, or cotton, often with a metallic wire, or sometimes a coarse cord, running through it; --…

An implement for cutting grass or grain; a sickle; an instrument for cutting or lopping; a billhook.

A curve formed by a section of a cone, when the cutting plane makes a greater angle with the base than the side of the cone makes. It…

Having the quality of incising, cutting, or penetrating, as with a sharp instrument; cutting; hence, sharp; acute; sarcastic; biting.

A piece of timber laid horizontally, or nearly so, to which the planks of the floor, or the laths or furring strips of a ceiling, are…

A figure the lines of which are interlaced or intricately interwoven, as in embroidery, gardening, etc.

do landscape gardening; "My sons landscapes for corporations and earns a good living"

A piece of brass, lead, or other soft metal, used to hold a cutting or polishing powder in cutting glass, gems, and the like, or in po…

the downy feathers of marabou storks are used for trimming garments