rare. [f. prec. sb.; OE. had pa. pple. æppled.]
1. trans. and intr. To form or turn into apples; to bear apples, or similar fruit; to fruit.
a. 1000. Juliana, 688. Æpplede gold.
1601. Holland, Pliny (1634), II. 93. Either they floure, or they apple or els be ready to bring forth fruit.
1796. Marshall, Gardening (1800), 245 (T.). The cabbage turnep is of two kinds: one apples above ground, and the other in it.
2. intr. To gather apples.
1799. A. Young, Agric. Surv. Linc., 216. The poor people supply themselves with very good fuel by gathering the fir-apples, and rotten wood; you will sometimes see twenty children in my plantations appleing, as they call it.
