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Pruning hook   /prˈunɪŋ hʊk/   Listen
noun
Pruning  n.  
1.
The act of trimming, or removing what is superfluous.
2.
(Falconry) That which is cast off by bird in pruning her feathers; leavings.
Pruning hook, or Pruning knife, cutting instrument used in pruning trees, etc.
Pruning shears, shears for pruning trees, vines, etc.





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"Pruning hook" Quotes from Famous Books



... just sense, which made him reject every superfluous thing which his vast imagination could offer, and to retain only what was necessary and useful. Judgment guided the hand of this admirable gardener, and was the pruning hook he employed to lop off ...
— The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753),Vol. V. • Theophilus Cibber


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