A long-handled pruning saw with a curved blade at the end and sometimes a clipper; used to prune small trees.
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Examples for "pruner "
Examples for "pruner "
1 He got a job with the Parks department as climber and pruner .
2 I am a periodic pruner of my own digital history.
3 Then a hoe, another spade, a hand tiller, a hedge clipper, and a pruner .
4 He was called by Demosthenes, "the pruner of my periods."
5 He is the pruner of our politics.
1 Pomōna has a pruning hook in her right hand, and a branch in her left.
2 These are the devil's tools in monarchies; the Republic's weapons are the ploughshare and the pruning hook .
3 I must plead guilty to the charge, not having leisure to apply the pruning hook of correction.
4 Drop that merciless tool, your pruning hook .
5 If you are doing any of these things, get out the pruning hook of good resolution and the sharp ax of determination.
1 When the lopper had laid it bare and the woodcutters had sapped its base, five men commenced hauling at the rope attached to the top.
2 The damage I'd have done with spade and loppers
3 At first, the loppers climbed up the trunk.
4 I came back the next day with a pair of loppers from home...
5 Garden tool firm Spear & Jackson has also won praise after it saved a reader's long-arm loppers after he lost a blade-return spring.
6 A recent examination revealed rusting loppers , the snapped head of a garden fork, two broken knapsack sprayers, and an ancient bottle of Rose Clear.
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