pruner
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Corona Tools, a Corona, Calif., business for nearly 100 years, introduced its pocket pruner last year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2024
Use sharp snips or bypass pruner to make a clean cut that looks tidy and closes up quickly.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 17, 2024
Newhouse maneuvered an extendable pole pruner around a branch; with a pull of a string, the blade snapped shut, and the bag fell.
From New York Times ● Apr. 30, 2020
"He was nice but he was depressed," said Eugene Hernandez, a tree pruner staying at the shelter.
From Reuters ● Mar. 23, 2015
I got him back from his deportation, where he had been working as a pruner of coconut-palms, and have made him a pyrotechnist.”
From The Reign of Greed by Charles E. Derbyshire
Remember what I said above about gardeners never having enough pruners?
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2024
To harvest, wait until after the first light frost, which will sweeten their flavor, then pull hips off the plant or clip them using scissors or pruners.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 13, 2023
Use sharp, clean pruners to take 1-foot-long, pencil-width cuttings from the ends of branches.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 31, 2022
Use a clean pair of pruners to cut about a quarter-inch below the node at a 45-degree angle.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 23, 2022
He had his gloves and Great-Uncle Jim’s special pruners.
From "Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer" by Kelly Jones
