In like manner each group of people possesses its scarifier, who by practice becomes adept. From Wordnik.com. [Negritos of Zambales] Reference
Brian appeared, waving, out of the shed where he was trying to dismantle a hundred year old scarifier. From Wordnik.com. [What I cooked last night.] Reference
Instead of the old-fashioned lancet in the vein Sir Henry preferred the modern scarifier that was supposed to be faster and more effective. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Eagle]
Who would not rather be a healer than a scarifier?. From Wordnik.com. [The Secret of a Happy Home (1896)] Reference
Fiji, from Sydney, were a stethoscope and a scarifier. From Wordnik.com. [History of English Humour, Vol. 2 (of 2)] Reference
I have almost finished No. 3, in which I have relieved my indignant soul with a scarifier. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 1 (of 3), 1833-1856] Reference
When the soil has weathered a few weeks, the scarifier or cultivator should be run over it once monthly until May. From Wordnik.com. [The Cauliflower] Reference
He bought a Guillaume scarifier, a Valcourt weeder, an English drill-machine, and the great swing-plough of Mathieu de Dombasle, but the ploughboy disparaged it. From Wordnik.com. [Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life] Reference
The scuffle-hoe, or scarifier, which completes the four, is used between narrow rows for shallow work, such as cutting off small weeds and breaking up the crust. From Wordnik.com. [Home Vegetable Gardening — a Complete and Practical Guide to the Planting and Care of All Vegetables, Fruits and Berries Worth Growing for Home Use] Reference
Wilcox also said the Commission is looking into buying another scarifier, a piece of equipment that is useful for digging up potholes and creating a smoother road surface. From Wordnik.com. [Moberly Monitor-Index Homepage RSS] Reference
Instead of tickling it with a hoe, and watching the golden harvest leap forth, scarifier and plough, harrow and drill in almost ceaseless succession, compel the clods by sheer force of iron to deliver up their treasure. From Wordnik.com. [Hodge and His Masters] Reference
They agreed that the modern plough ploughed better, that the scarifier did the work more quickly, but they found thousands of reasons that made it out of the question for them to use either of them; and though he had accepted the conviction that he would have to lower the standard of cultivation, he felt sorry to give up improved methods, the advantages of which were so obvious. From Wordnik.com. [Anna Karenina] Reference
All agricultural | All agricultural labor labor is performed by the | is performed with the hand-hoe, very expensive | plough, harrows, and in its nature. | scarifier, with oxen. From Wordnik.com. [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference
Lot 242. 9-time scarifier. From Wordnik.com. [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference
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