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Meanings of pruner in English
A long-handled pruning saw with a curved blade at the end and sometimes a clipper; used to prune small trees.
Synonyms
Examples for "pruning hook"
Examples for "pruning hook"
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.
Usage of pruner in English
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.
6
He had formerly been a pruner of trees, and he gladly found himself a gardener once more.
7
Willi spread open the soft tissue of her chest and selected a garden pruner with curved blades.
8
Provost is the Garden's high pruner.
9
The pruner merely left the trunk and the three or four main laterals, the latter about one foot in length.
10
Just at the spot I reached was the stem of a small tree; one branch alone had escaped the pruner's hatchet.
11
Demosthenes was once heard to remark, on seeing Phocion rise to speak, "Here comes the pruner of my periods."
12
Grape pruner Smith Isaiah, from Vanuatu, who was in his third year in Hawke's Bay, said that achieving his goal was starting to get easier.
13
The mossing party, it is hardly necessary to mention, should follow the pruners.
14
Vineyards are looking a picture as pruners move in to do the trimming.
15
Mr Pruner said: It feels like a festival, except this one has a meaning.
16
We are assured it will make cutting 3½ times easier than with lesser pruners.
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Frequent collocations
Pruner through the time