To remove unwanted vegetation from a cultivated area.
Esimerkit
If it isn't in a straight line or marked with a label, it's a weed.
The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.
one rushing forth out of the thickest weed
A wild and wanton pard[...]/ Crouched fawning in the weed.
I weeded my flower bed.
DON PEDRO. Come, let us hence, and put on other weeds;
And then to Leonato's we will go.
CLAUDIO. And Hymen now with luckier issue speed's,
Than this for whom we rend'red up this woe!
These two dignified persons were followed by their respective attendants, and at a more humble distance by their guide, whose figure had nothing more remarkable than it derived from the usual weeds of a pilgrim.
He wore a weed on his hat.
In a mourning weed, with ashes upon her head, and tears abundantly flowing.
I weeded some of the extra stuff out of my closet.