I.a shearing, clipping; a pruning, trimming: “quidam in anno bis tondent (oves) ac semestres faciunt tonsuras,” wool - shearings, shearings, Varr. R. R. 2, 11, 8: “primae lana,” Plin. 28, 8, 29, § 115: “capillorum,” Ov. A. A. 1, 517: “vitis,” Plin. 17, 27, 45, § 257; 16, 37, 68, § 175.
tonsūra , ae, f. id.,