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Definition of Pruning knife
1. Noun. A knife with a curved or hooked blade.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pruning Knife
Literary usage of Pruning knife
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Origin and Growth of the English Constitution: An Historical Treatise by Hannis Taylor (1898)
"4 Such was the condition of things when the council passed under the pruning-knife
of the Long Parliament,6 whose drastic legislation completely changed its ..."
2. The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste by Luther Tucker (1860)
"THE BRANCH-TRIMMER AND PRUNING-KNIFE. THE instrument here represented'is due to M.
... Experience has proved that much of a curve in the pruning-knife is ..."
3. The American Catholic Quarterly Review by James Andrew Corcoran, Patrick John Ryan, Edmond Francis Prendergast (1886)
"(5) Is the whole scope, or balance, of the arguments in favor of the pruning
knife or of the axe ? I. Politically, it may be affirmed without misgiving, ..."
4. The Life of an Actor by Pierce Egan (1904)
"Value of the Theatrical pruning knife ; cruel only to be kind: Cutting a Manuscript
at Rehearsal. The Actors must be allowed their /okes upon the Stage: a ..."
5. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1846)
"... but in the end he seems ready 'to carry the pruning-knife nearer to the root,
and to consign the whole of the miraculous relations in the New Testament ..."
6. More Memories: Being Thoughts about England Spoken in America by Samuel Reynolds Hole (1894)
"Imperishable Faith — The Sword of the Oppressor is the Pruning- knife of the
Vine — Sacrilege — The Higher Criticism — The Old Paths — Church and State ..."
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