[
US
/ˈpɹunɝ/
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NOUN
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a worker who thins out and trims trees and shrubs
untouched by the pruner's axe - a long-handled pruning saw with a curved blade at the end and sometimes a clipper; used to prune small trees
How To Use pruner In A Sentence
- When pruning small branches with hand pruners, make sure the tools are sharp enough to cut the branches cleanly without tearing.
- Rod Blagojevic makes me think if horrible missteps involving a pruner. The Emmy Awards Live Blog
- Taking upon as most peculiar jobs as he could handle - pruner, workman, reaper, laborer - he still couldn't yield sufficient for nine mouths. Archive 2009-11-01
- The calculations take milliseconds, so all that slows the pruner are the motors and tractor as they stop and start. Undefined
- On this side were the ex-physician to the viceroy of Egypt, Franz Pruner-Bey, the former Martinique physician Etienne Rufz de Lavison, and the alienist Louis-Jean Delasiauve.
- That night we slept at Herisau, the largest town in the Canton, and here I was to part with Spruner. Scenes in Switzerland
- If you are a "pruner," you will be convinced - as I am - that the hate speech provisions in federal and provincial human rights acts should be repealed. Canada Free Press
- This unit packs plenty of punch for nearly any commercial application and can accommodate a trimmer, edger, tiller/cultivator, shaft hedge clipper, a power broom, dethatcher and a power pruner.
- You'll need short handled pruners to cut off spent flower blooms, trim vines that have grown into walkways and shape shrubs.
- Care must be taken to avoid the fungal disease eutypa dieback, of which spores may be transferred on pruners, infecting the pruning wounds following large cuts.
