Definition of "pruner" []

• A person who prunes, or a tool used in pruning (noun)
• Any of several unrelated beetles whose larvae attack the branches of trees (noun)

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• "The calculations take milliseconds, so all that slows the pruner are the motors and tractor as they stop and start."
• "If you are a "pruner," you will be convinced - as I am - that the hate speech provisions in federal and provincial human rights acts should be repealed."
• "When I returned Barbara has joined in the fun and was in the middle of donning wellies and get the 'cherry picker' now the only cherry pickers I've ever seen are those little crain things with a basket for humans that window cleaners sometimes use, I've also seen council employees use them to change light bulbs in displays in town centres and that type of thing - what Barbara came back with was something akin to what I would call a 'pruner' it was like a pair of shears on the end of a long poll with wires running down the poll so that you can move something your end and make the shears at the other end work!"