A long-handled pruning saw with a curved blade at the end and sometimes a clipper; used to prune small trees.
A worker who thins out and trims trees and shrubs.
1He got a job with the Parks department as climber and pruner.
2I am a periodic pruner of my own digital history.
3Then a hoe, another spade, a hand tiller, a hedge clipper, and a pruner.
4He was called by Demosthenes, "the pruner of my periods."
5He is the pruner of our politics.
6He had formerly been a pruner of trees, and he gladly found himself a gardener once more.
7Willi spread open the soft tissue of her chest and selected a garden pruner with curved blades.
8Provost is the Garden's high pruner.
9The pruner merely left the trunk and the three or four main laterals, the latter about one foot in length.
10Just at the spot I reached was the stem of a small tree; one branch alone had escaped the pruner's hatchet.
11Demosthenes was once heard to remark, on seeing Phocion rise to speak, "Here comes the pruner of my periods."
12Grape 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.
13The mossing party, it is hardly necessary to mention, should follow the pruners.
14Vineyards are looking a picture as pruners move in to do the trimming.
15Mr Pruner said: It feels like a festival, except this one has a meaning.
16We are assured it will make cutting 3½ times easier than with lesser pruners.