Debrancher

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A machine for stripping the branches from trees.

    "At today's lumber camps you will see more giant skidders, mammoth harvesters, and merciless mechanical debranchers than horses and grindstones."

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"At today's lumber camps you will see more giant skidders, mammoth harvesters, and merciless mechanical debranchers than horses and grindstones."

Etymology

From debranch + -er.

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