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Weeder

noun
1.
A farmhand hired to remove weeds.
2.
A hand tool for removing weeds.  Synonym: weed-whacker.





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"Weeder" Quotes from Famous Books



... so firm and quick. The young person had slightly raised herself on noticing that he was no longer at work, but had again lowered her head before he could distinguish her features. This shyness kept him in suspense. Like an inquisitive lad he wondered who this weeder could be, and while he lingered there, whistling and beating time with a chisel, the latter suddenly slipped out of his hand. It fell into the Jas-Meiffren, striking the curb of the well, and then bounding a few feet from the wall. Silvere looked at it, leaning forward and ...
— The Fortune of the Rougons • Emile Zola
... spreading wide Amang the bearded bear, I turn'd the weeder-clips aside, And spared the ...
— Minstrelsy of the Scottish border (3rd ed) (1 of 3) • Walter Scott
... the clergy as generally concerned in the matter. For she had had a little experience, and had listened to much testimony from such as knew, and firmly believed that the clergy were very near the root of the evil; and that not with the hoe and weeder, but with the watering pot and artificial manure, helping largely to convert the poor—into beggars, and the lawless into hypocrites, heaping cairn upon cairn on the grave of their poor prostrate buried souls. But thank God, it is by the few, but fast increasing ...
— Weighed and Wanting • George MacDonald


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