Crossword clues for pruner
pruner
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 larva eats the pith of oak branches, and when mature gnaws a circular furrow on the inside nearly to the bark. When the branches fall each contains a pupa.
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
WordNet
n. a worker who thins out and trims trees and shrubs; "untouched by the pruner's axe" [syn: trimmer]
a long-handled edge tool with a curved blade at the end and sometimes a clipper; used to prune small trees [syn: pruning hook, lopper]
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.