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pruner|ˈpruːnə(r)|
Forms: see prune v.2
[f. prune v.2 + -er1.]
1. One who prunes trees or shrubs.
1586W. Webbe Eng. Poetrie (Arb.) 75 (Virgil Ecl. i. 57) Vnder a Rock side here will proyner chaunt [canet frondator] merrie ditties. 1587Golding De Mornay xxi. (1592) 322 The inuention..of the proiner of Vines. 1611Speed Theat. Gt. Brit. xiii. (1614) 25/2 These grafts..were cut downe by the Pruiner. 1761Beattie Hares 86 An ancient Wood..By pruner's axe yet unprofaned. 1887Bowen Virg. Eclogue iv. 40 Glebe shall be free from the harrow, the vine no pruner fear.
fig.a1763Shenstone Economy i. 256 Youth is fair virtue's season, virtue then Requires the pruner's hand. 1876Spurgeon Commenting 4 Calvin..was no trimmer and pruner of texts.
2. A tool used for pruning trees or shrubs.
1895Montgomery Ward Catal. Spring & Summer 391/3 This pruner, being made with the shear cut, will work with double the ease of any other pruner. Ibid., Waters' Improved Tree Pruner. 1916L. H. Bailey Pruning Man. vi. 192 (caption) Double-lever and single-lever pole pruner. 1949E. Hyams Not in Our Stars xiii. 160 The long-arm pruner had tired his arms and shoulders. 1971Country Life 14 Oct. 955/3 My arm aches from using the sickle, and the heavy pruner. 1975E. Wigginton Foxfire 3 26 Got to where I couldn't press the pruners enough to cut a big limb. |