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Definition of Pruners
1. pruner [n] - See also: pruner
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pruners
Literary usage of Pruners
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Instinct: Its Office in the Animal Kingdom, and Its Relation to the Higher by Paul Ansel Chadbourne (1883)
"Correlation of the three kingdoms of Nature.—Hibernation.—Gall-flies.—Ichneumon-flies.
— Bot-fly. — Tent-moth. — Oak-pruners. — Borer. ..."
2. A Practical Treatise on Planting: And the Management of Woods and Coppices by Samuel Hayes, Royal Dublin Society (1794)
"... they are carried in a low-wheeled waggon from the heaps where they have been
bedded, to the pruners; when they arrive, the planters and pruners ..."
3. Planting and Ornamental Gardening: A Practical Treatise by Marshall (William), Marshall (1785)
"We have a low-wheeled waggon to carry them from the heaps, where they are bedded,
to the pruners, and generally take two loads every other day. ..."
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