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Definition of Scarifier

1. n. One who scarifies.

Definition of Scarifier

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Scarifier

1. 1. One who scarifies. 2. The instrument used for scarifying. 3. An implement for stripping and loosening the soil, without bringing up a fresh surface. "You have your scarifiers to make the ground clean." (Southey) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Scarifier

Literary usage of Scarifier

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Road Making and Maintenance: A Practical Treatise for Engineers, Surveyors by Thomas Aitken (1900)
"Fowler's (Fowler and Benstead) scarifier.—This machine consists of a light triangular frame fixed on the main axle of the off-side ..."

2. European Agriculture and Rural Economy by Henry Colman (1851)
""Directions for using the scarifier,—In using the scarifier, attention should be paid to set it level, and the depth of scarifying may be varied from one to ..."

3. On the Agriculture of Suffolk by William Raynbird, Hugh Raynbird (1849)
"Directions for using the scarifier. In using the scarifier, attention should be paid to set it level, and the depth of scarifying may be varied from one to ..."

4. Road Making and Maintenance: A Practical Treatise for Engineers, Surveyors by Thomas Aitken (1900)
"... scarifier, Jackson's scarifier, Wallis's road-pecking machine, Henderson's machine for breaking up Macadam, Fowler's Machine ..."

5. Road Making and Maintenance: A Practical Treatise for Engineers, Surveyors by Thomas Aitken (1900)
"... scarifier, Jackson's scarifier, Wallis's road-pecking machine, Henderson's machine for breaking up Macadam, Fowler's Machine ..."

6. Australasian Roads: A Treatise, Practical and Scientific, on the Location by John Montgomery Coane, Henry Edward Coane (1908)
"In 1884, probably the first satisfactory road scarifier drawn by chains attached to either a 43 steam roller or a traction engine was patented by Rutty. ..."

7. General View of the Agriculture of Hampshire, Including the Isle of Wight by Charles Vancouver, Board of Agriculture (Great Britain) (1810)
"Cook-s Improved scarifier with a Cast-iron Beam- Is -without question one ... Leicester-s Cultivator—Or scarifier of a triangular form, and supported by a ..."

8. A New System of Cultivation, Without Lime, Or Dung, Or Summer Fallows: As by Alexander Beatson (1820)
"... —scarifier compared to four small Ploughs—Its Power computed—Can pulverize with one Horse an Acre of light Soil'per day—Example of pulverizing at the ..."

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