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Definition of Pruner
1. Noun. A worker who thins out and trims trees and shrubs. "Untouched by the pruner's axe"
2. Noun. A long-handled pruning saw with a curved blade at the end and sometimes a clipper; used to prune small trees.
Definition of Pruner
1. n. One who prunes, or removes, what is superfluous.
Definition of Pruner
1. Noun. A person who prunes, or a tool used in pruning ¹
2. Noun. Any of several unrelated beetles whose larvae attack the branches of trees ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pruner
1. one that prunes [n -S] - See also: prunes
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pruner
Literary usage of Pruner
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Egypt by James Carlile McCoan, Wilfred C. Lay (1902)
"In Cairo and throughout Middle Egypt, the 1 According to Dr. pruner, the moisture
of Alexandria is one hundred and fifty-two times that of Cairo. ..."
2. Manual of Fruit Insects by Mark Vernon Slingerland, Cyrus Richard Crosby (1914)
"REFERENCE US Bur. Ent. Bull. 22, pp. 37^4. 1900. THE TWIG-pruner ... fallen to
the ground, having been deftly pruned from the trees by this twig-pruner. ..."
3. The Natural History of Insects by James Rennie, John Obadiah Westwood (1835)
"The falling of these branches is occasioned by the larva or grub of an insect,
which, from this effect of its labour, may be called the oak- pruner. ..."
4. The Pruning-book: A Monograph of the Pruning and Training of Plants as by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1898)
"SUGGESTIONS TO THE pruner If the reader has grasped the principles involved ...
First of all, the pruner wants to know how and when he shall cut the limbs ..."
5. Archæology and False Antiquities by Robert Munro (1905)
"M. pruner- Bey thought the skull to which it belonged was brachy- cephalic,
analogous to some skulls found in a tumulus of the early Iron Age in Switzerland ..."
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