pruner's Usage Examples:

These vary from a brushcutter, hedgetrimmer, pruner, edger, strimmer, soil cultivator and power sweep.

Complete with aluminum fork, trowel and transplanting trowel not to mention anvil secateurs and bypass pruners, this kit is fantastic value.

Here the great trees, getting out of the gardeners way, or any attack of pruners or self-appointed tree-architects, assume their true and natural form, and are fine at all seasons.

Another very common type of pruner is the anvil pruner.

Anvil pruners work like their namesake, the blacksmiths' anvil, by striking one blade against the other.

Bypass pruners work much like ordinary scissors.

If you're shopping for pruners and the package doesn't say whether or not they are bypass pruners, look for a pruner with two separate blades joined by a screw.

You can prune gardenias with a variety of hand tools, but experts recommend pruning gardenias with a bypass pruner.

Three or four leading shoots should be selected to pass ere long into boughs and form a well-balanced framework for the tree; these boughs, however, will soon grow beyond any artificial system the pruner may adopt.

Synonyms:

pruning hook, lopper, pruning saw,

Antonyms:

employer, layabout, someone, idler,