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Pruner   /prˈunər/   Listen
Pruner

noun
1.
A worker who thins out and trims trees and shrubs.  Synonym: trimmer.
2.
A long-handled pruning saw with a curved blade at the end and sometimes a clipper; used to prune small trees.  Synonyms: lopper, pruning hook.






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"Pruner" Quotes from Famous Books



... The pruner should know the flower-bearing habit of the plant that he prunes,—whether the bloom is on the shoots of last season or on the new wood of the present season, and whether the flower-buds of spring-blooming plants are separate from the leaf-buds. ...
— Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) • L. H. Bailey

... mother-in-law of the pruner of coco-palms, but she was not weeping; instead, she paced back and forth, gesticulating with uplifted arms, and haranguing the crowd: "Did you ever see anything like it? To arrest my Andong, to ...
— The Social Cancer - A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere • Jose Rizal

... came from a poor peasant family of Brie. He had not learned to read in his childhood. When he reached man's estate, he became a tree-pruner at Faverolles. His mother was named Jeanne Mathieu; his father was called Jean Valjean or Vlajean, probably a sobriquet, and a contraction ...
— Les Miserables - Complete in Five Volumes • Victor Hugo

... schoolmaster who persisted in teaching Spanish to the children and did not stop until he had lost his position and had been deported as a disturber of the public peace, and for having been a friend of the unfortunate Ibarra. I got him back from his deportation, where he had been working as a pruner of coconut-palms, and ...
— The Reign of Greed - Complete English Version of 'El Filibusterismo' • Jose Rizal

... sacred springs, you'll shun the scorching beams; While from yon willow-fence, thy picture's bound, The bees that suck their flow'ry stores around, Shall sweetly mingle with the whispering boughs Their lulling murmurs, and invite repose: While from steep rocks the pruner's song is heard; Nor the soft-cooing dove, thy fav'rite bird, Meanwhile shall cease to breathe her melting strain, Nor turtles from th' aerial elm to ...
— The Works of Samuel Johnson - Volume IV [The Rambler and The Adventurer] • Samuel Johnson



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