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Answer for the clue "Gardener's chore ", 7 letters:
weeding

Word definitions for weeding in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Weed \Weed\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Weeded ; p. pr. & vb. n. Weeding .] [AS. we['o]dian. See 3d Weed .] To free from noxious plants; to clear of weeds; as, to weed corn or onions; to weed a garden. To take away, as noxious plants; to remove, as something ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. action of the verb ''to weed#Verb''. vb. (present participle of weed English)

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Weeding is the systematic removal of resources from a library based on selected criteria. It is the opposite of selecting material, though the selection and de-selection of material often involve the same thought process. Weeding is a vital process for ...

Usage examples of weeding.

Number 189 acknowledged this gesture with shy, solemn respect, then returned to his work weeding hawkbit from the ordered files of the chrysanthemums.

But her childhood friend and university acquaintance, Robbie Turner, was on his knees, weeding along a rugosa hedge, and she did not feel like getting into conversation with him.

The Simonites were weeding out the troublemakers in their traditional role as protectors of holy places.

Sometimes, as if from long-standing habit, he would take his sharp, heavy sheers out of his overcoat pocket and painstakingly, without asking any money, set to work in the yard in front of the main building, trimming the thuja bushes, pruning the acacias, and weeding the garden beds.

Apothecary and Herbarist, and the Weeding Woman of the Earthly Paradise.

And I knew the weeds would have a fine time of it with Adela, as Weeding Woman, in a tissue-paper bonnet!

I was that I had let Adela be the Weeding Woman with a good grace, and could open my book parcel with a clear conscience!

Apothecary and Herbarist, or Weeding Woman, and Alphonse Karr does not seem to have had any by-name of that sort.

It is also advisable to be your own weeding woman, that you may be sure that the weeds come up by the roots!

She walked across the fields to Little Farthing, where she found Fiona Goddard weeding her rockery.

But if he can report to his superiors that he, as always vigilant in weeding out bad elements in his district, had his constables locate and apprehend a longsought murderer and duly delivered him in chains to the magistrate in whose district the murder was committed, that will make an excellent impression on the higher authorities, and may accelerate his promotion.

My challenge is to examine the previous methodology, weeding out the bad and keeping the good.

Through the open window she caught a glimpse of Miss Greenshaw in a puce-coloured sprigged print, bending over the rockery, weeding assiduously.

She found a trowel and a small stoot and spent the rest of the morning and part of the afternoon weeding.

It was he who set up the Office of Human Background, which processed and evaluated the ordinary Americans, weeding out the extraordinary and subordinary ones.