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AVERRUNCATOR

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 59 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AVERRUNCATOR  , a

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form of
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long
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shears used in
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arboriculture for•"averruncating" or pruning off the higher branches of trees, &c . The word " averruncate " (from
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Lat. averruncare, to
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ward off, remove
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mischief) glided into meaning to "
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weed the ground," "
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prune vines," &c., by a supposed derivation from the Lat. ab, off, and eruncare, to weed out, and it was spelt " aberuncate " to suit this ; but the New
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English
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Dictionary regards such a derivation as impossible .

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