PRUNER Synonyms

• a worker who thins out and trims trees and shrubs

• a machine that trims timber

• capacitor having variable capacitance; used for making fine adjustments

• joist that receives the end of a header in floor or roof framing in order to leave an opening for a staircase or chimney etc.

• (electronics) a nonlinear electronic circuit whose output is limited in amplitude; used to limit the instantaneous amplitude of a waveform (to clip off the peaks of a waveform)

• a fast sailing ship used in former times

• shears for cutting grass or shrubbery

• scissors for cutting hair or finger nails

• someone who cuts or carves stone

• someone who carves the meat

• someone whose work is cutting (as e.g. cutting cloth for garments)

• a boat for communication between ship and shore

• a sailing vessel with a single mast set further back than the mast of a sloop

• a cutting implement; a tool for cutting

• (physics) a deformation of an object in which parallel planes remain parallel but are shifted in a direction parallel to themselves

• a large edge tool that cuts sheet metal by passing a blade through it

• cut with shears

• shear the wool from

• cut or cut through with shears

• become deformed by forces tending to produce a shearing strain

• a long-handled pruning saw with a curved blade at the end and sometimes a clipper; used to prune small trees