Crossword clues for weeder
weeder
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Weeder \Weed"er\, n. One who, or that which, weeds, or frees from anything noxious.
Wiktionary
n. 1 an agricultural worker who removes weeds 2 a tool used to remove weeds
WordNet
n. a farmhand hired to remove weeds
a hand tool for removing weeds
Wikipedia
A number of common weeding tools are designed to ease the task of removing weeds from gardens and lawns.
- The fulcrum weeder has a split tip like a serpent's tongue, and a long thin handle. Many models have a curved piece of metal along the handle which is put against the ground while the tip is digging. The curved metal piece acts as a fulcrum in a lever system. It is helpful to remove weeds either with a tap root or a fibrous root system.
- The Cape Cod weeder has a thin, long handle and a triangular scraping head. When the handle is held parallel to the ground, the head points downward.
- The crack weeder is a relative of the Cape Cod Weeder. It is designed to scrape out weeds growing in crevices, stone walls and other deep and narrow places. The plane of the L-shaped scraping blade includes the handle; the bottom of the "L" is parallel to it.
Usage examples of "weeder".
Loved it, that is, until Sarkkhan came here with blood on his mind and broke that bagged weeder back down to stallboy again.
Rachel Zlatopolsky had also gone out with the weeders, as Scotty had started to think of the people in the land vehicles-Rachel, and Emo Tannan, and others from the Hawking whom he had come to know before they had beamed down to their new home.
I been a bull goose catskinner for every gyppo logging operation in the Northwest and bull goose gambler all the way from Korea, was even bull goose pea weeder on that pea farm at Pendleton—so I figure if I’m bound to be a loony, then I’m bound to be a stompdown dadgum good one.
You are to double the guards: and all the gardeners and weeders are to be examined every day.
When the morning came they saw all the gardeners and weeders coming up to the wall and every one was looked at by three guards.
Then he saw the line of weeders in the fields and knew that they must be looking up at the dragon.