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Answer for the clue "Tree worker ", 6 letters:
pruner

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Word definitions for pruner in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A person who prunes, or a tool used in pruning 2 Any of several unrelated beetles whose larvae attack the branches of trees

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pruner \Prun"er\, n. One who prunes, or removes, what is superfluous. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of several species of beetles whose larv[ae] gnaw the branches of trees so as to cause them to fall, especially the American oak pruner ( Asemum m[oe]stum ), whose ...

Usage examples of pruner.

It was filled with hand tools for his new garden: a dibbler and a trowel and a claw hoe and a genuine Felco10 Professional Pruner.

Pruner had informed him with a wink that Willock was off sowing his wild oats.

The lords best plum tree, as Meris knew well (for his uncle was a skilled pruner of trees, and worked on them), was the old one in the middle of the garden, the only survivor of a row of plums grafted from scions of the kings garden in Finyatha.

The first worker held a ten-foot pole pruner, the second a clipboard.

I guess it didn't occur to me what saws and scalpels and hedge pruners will do for muscle tone,' she commented.

She saw rakes and pruners, hedge clippers, a metal can of three-in-one oil, two pairs of soiled garden gloves, piles of wooden stakes, bags of lawn seed and Hollytone, and these became like stars, like constellations floating in a mist of ecstasy.