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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 "trimmer"
Examples for "trimmer"
1
And he caught up the oars and rowed swiftly towards the trimmer.
2
She is a trimmer of the seas-theLord Halifax of the ocean.'
3
Under that I could detect the low hum of my beard trimmer.
4
As she came out she met the window trimmer at Floman's store.
5
I don't care as long as that trimmer Boreck didn't get it.
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