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Meanings of lopper in English

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.
        The new yorker
        2
        I am a periodic pruner of my own digital history.
        Wired
        3
        Then a hoe, another spade, a hand tiller, a hedge clipper, and a pruner.
        Flash and Bones
        4
        He was called by Demosthenes, "the pruner of my periods."
        Meditations
        5
        He is the pruner of our politics.
        The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863 / A Maga...
        1
        Pomōna has a pruning hook in her right hand, and a branch in her left.
        Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology / For Classical Schools...
        2
        These are the devil's tools in monarchies; the Republic's weapons are the ploughshare and the pruning hook.
        Round the World
        3
        I must plead guilty to the charge, not having leisure to apply the pruning hook of correction.
        The American Practical Brewer and Tanner
        4
        Drop that merciless tool, your pruning hook.
        The Original Fables of La Fontaine / Rendered into English Prose...
        5
        If you are doing any of these things, get out the pruning hook of good resolution and the sharp ax of determination.
        Crayon and Character: Truth Made Clear Through Eye and Ear / Or,...
        Usage of lopper in English
        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.
        Original Short Stories — Volume 03
        2
        The damage I'd have done with spade and loppers
        The Irish Times
        3
        At first, the loppers climbed up the trunk.
        The works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 5 / Une Vie and Other Stori...
        4
        I came back the next day with a pair of loppers from home...
        Radio NZ
        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.
        The Guardian
        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.
        The Irish Times
        Lopper through the time