graft

A small shoot or scion of a tree inserted in another tree, the stock of which is to support and nourish it. The two unite and become one tree, but the graft determines the kind of fruit.

A branch or portion of a tree growing from such a shoot.

A portion of living tissue used in the operation of autoplasty.

To insert (a graft) in a branch or stem of another tree; to propagate by insertion in another stock; also, to insert a graft upon.

To insert scions (grafts) from one tree, or kind of tree, etc., into another; to practice grafting.

To implant a portion of (living flesh or akin) in a lesion so as to form an organic union.

To join (one thing) to another as if by grafting, so as to bring about a close union.

And graft my love immortal on thy fame!

Of course, this was a music cruise, a floating rock festival grafted onto a passenger ship, and a quietly thriving corner of the music and cruise industries.

To cover, as a ring bolt, block strap, splicing, etc., with a weaving of small cord or rope yarns.

A ditch, a canal.

The depth of the blade of a digging tool such as a spade or shovel.

[…] in the first operation, we dug through the peat, the hard sand, and gravel, and one spade's graft (about nine inches deep, and seven inches wide) into the quick sand, the whole length of this drain,[…]

A narrow spade used in digging drainage trenches.