Crossword-Solution: PRUNING 7 letters, 10 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

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Word Word Type Definition
Pruning p. pr. & vb. n. of Prune
Pruning n. The act of trimming, or removing what is superfluous.
Pruning n. That which is cast off by bird in pruning her feathers;
leavings.

We have 10 clues for the answer “PRUNING”

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Clipping, as shrubs 1 answer
Gardener's duty 1 answer
Gardening job 1 answer
Job for a landscaper 1 answer
Kind of shears 1 answer
Tree-trimming. 1 answer
something that has been pruned off of a plant 1 answer
the act of trimming a plant 1 answer
Garden chore 4 answers
trimming 51 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAERE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PRUNING (5)

Peace and war kiss each other at their hours of preparation, sickles, scythes, shears, and pruning-hooks, mingling with swords, bayonets, and lances, in their common necessity for point and edge.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
The grass was as close-cropped and carpet-like as some old English lawn and the trees themselves showed evidence of careful pruning to a uniform height of about fifteen feet from the ground, so that as one turned his glance in any direction the forest had the appearance at a little distance of a vast, high-ceiled chamber.
The Gods of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
And when you want to keep a pruning-hook safe, then justice is useful to the individual and to the state; but when you want to use it, then the art of the vine-dresser? Clearly.
Plato's Republic Plato 2008
Long since the courts of heaven Begrudge us thee, our Caesar, and complain That thou regard'st the triumphs of mankind, Here where the wrong is right, the right is wrong, Where wars abound so many, and myriad-faced Is crime; where no meet honour hath the plough; The fields, their husbandmen led far away, Rot in neglect, and curved pruning-hooks Into the sword's stiff blade are fused and forged.
The Georgics Virgil 2008
Aberuncator.] An instrument for pruning trees, consisting of two blades, or a blade and a hook, fixed on the end of a long rod.
Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Noah Webster 1995

Quotes with PRUNING (3)

When love beckons to you follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you. And when he speaks to you believe in him, Though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden. For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning. Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches t…
Kahlil Gibran Le Prophete
YOU HAVE KILLEDYOU HAVE STOLENYOU HAVE DESTROYED. DEVOURER OF LIVESDEVOURER OF SOULSYOU ARE DEFEATED! ROAR O LION OF JUDAHPROCLAIM YOUR VICTORY! CHILDREN OF ADAM BEHOLD... BEHOLD THY SALVATION. FOR GREAT IS THE DAY OF THE LORD. TURN AND FOLLOW THE CHILDAS LION LIES WITH LAMB. O SWORD BE A PLOUGHO SPEAR BE A PRUNING HOOK" EDUCATORS" SILENCE! WE SHALL LEARN WAR NO MORE.
David Holdsworth
-Waiting Time is time of preparation, planning pruning before time of manifestation (time of showing forth)
Ikechukwu Joseph Strategic Spiritual Warfare
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Used 9 times in crossword archives (1945–2022).