transitive verb.
To cut off (a projecting body part), especially by surgery.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
To prune, as branches or twigs of trees or vines.
To cut off, as a limb or other part of an animal body; cut away the whole or a part of (more commonly the latter): as, to amputate the leg below the knee.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
transitive verb.
To prune or lop off, as branches or tendrils.
transitive verb.
To cut off (a limb or projecting part of the body)