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Grafter   Listen
noun
Grafter  n.  
1.
One who inserts scions on other stocks, or propagates fruit by ingrafting.
2.
An instrument by which grafting is facilitated.
3.
The original tree from which a scion has been taken for grafting upon another tree.





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"Grafter" Quotes from Famous Books



... ago. He 's prosperous as a pawnbroker. He gave me a radiant greeting. "How are you, Tanaka?" quoth I. "All same like damn monkey, Sensei," he replied. But he is unfailingly cheerful and the cleverest grafter in the universe, with an artistic temperament highly developed; he sometimes sends in the unchewable roast ...
— The Lady and Sada San - A Sequel to The Lady of the Decoration • Frances Little
... Henry thought this the best of the Jeff Peters stories, all the rest of which are included in "The Gentle Grafter," except "Cupid a la Carte" in the "Heart of the West." "The Atavism of John Tom Little Bear" appeared in Everybody's Magazine ...
— Rolling Stones • O. Henry
... Kohl and Middleton's, Chicago, and the following week at Burton's Museum, Milwaukee; but when we made the next jump I found that White was not along. They had had a family squabble, the other apex of the triangle being a circus grafter who "shibbolethed" at some of the "brace games," which at that time had police protection, so far as that could be given. He had interfered between the couple, and was, I am sorry to say, quite successful as an interferer; but he was a diabolical failure ...
— The Miracle Mongers, an Expos • Harry Houdini
... I refuse so good a man? Norman is on his way to Pennsylvania at this present moment, with a letter of credit in his pocket big enough to make the mouth of even a professional grafter water. At least, I hope ...
— The Quickening • Francis Lynde
... she was wealthy; she thought he was too, Not thinking each other a grafter, They found out between them there wasn't a sou— So they laughed ...
— Why They Married • James Montgomery Flagg


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