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grafter
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 One who inserts scions on other stocks, or propagates fruit by ingrafting. 2 An instrument by which grafting is facilitated. 3 The original tree from which a scion has been taken for grafting upon another tree. 4 (context slang English) Someone who ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Grafter \Graft"er\, n. One who inserts scions on other stocks, or propagates fruit by ingrafting. An instrument by which grafting is facilitated. The original tree from which a scion has been taken for grafting upon another tree. --Shak.
Usage examples of grafter.
After Lincoln died, after his Reconstruction plans were scrapped, the carpetbag grafters went hog-wild.
In Sacramento was a railroad Governor who might reprieve or even pardon bank-wreckers and grafters, but who dared not lift his finger for a workingman.
He might, for all Myrna or Johnson knew, have enlisted an entire army of grifters, grafters, hucksters and dips, who could communicate in ways even a thousand-year-old layman could not hope to grasp.
I think its Fishers, mostly, and Hunters, and some Grafters, and Banders and casteless types.
Last of all came the camp followers: wives, daughters, mistresses, whores, beggars, chiselers, and grafters.
Last of all came the camp followers: wives, daughters, mistresses, whores, beggars, chisellers and grafters.
The new party had promised Christian treatment to the Indians, but it appeared that they were greater grafters than their predecessors, and unlike them kept everything for themselves, allowing no perquisites to any Indian chief.