Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that removes weeds, as from a garden.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who weeds, or frees from anything noxious.
- noun In agriculture, any form of hand- or horse-tool for uprooting or destroying weeds.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, weeds, or frees from anything noxious.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun an
agricultural worker who removesweeds - noun a
tool used to remove weeds
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a hand tool for removing weeds
- noun a farmhand hired to remove weeds
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Examples
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The weeder is a cousin to the push hoe and has a zigzag blade for cutting off young weeds which are just starting above ground.
Three Acres and Liberty Bolton Hall 1896
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If you are a "weeder," you'll favour abolition of all HRCs.
Canada Free Press 2009
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The schools want a certain amount of failures in these large "weeder" classes, because giving a diploma to everyone who pays waters down the value of the diploma ... if you can't learn because the environment isn't as cozy as it could be, I'm not sure it is completely the school's job to fix that for you.
Slashdot 2009
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The schools want a certain amount of failures in these large "weeder" classes, because giving a diploma to everyone who pays waters down the value of the diploma.
Slashdot 2009
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Autonomow, the robotic farm weeder, had a busy week.
Steve Blank: Stanford's Hottest Student Startups Furiously Work to Iterate and Pivot Steve Blank 2011
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The Robocrop Precision Guidance System for row crop cultivators uses a camera to shift a hitch so cultivators can cut very close to the plant rows and the Robocrop InRow is a robotic weeder.
Steve Blank: Stanford's Hottest Student Startups Furiously Work to Iterate and Pivot Steve Blank 2011
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Perhaps it's time to require economists to master linear passive circuits as a weeder the way engineering undergraduate schools do.
The Academic Job Market, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Autonomow, the robotic farm weeder, had a busy week.
Steve Blank: Stanford's Hottest Student Startups Furiously Work to Iterate and Pivot Steve Blank 2011
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But yeah, the book is a weeder since most new construction is built to be more permanent.
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The Robocrop Precision Guidance System for row crop cultivators uses a camera to shift a hitch so cultivators can cut very close to the plant rows and the Robocrop InRow is a robotic weeder.
Steve Blank: Stanford's Hottest Student Startups Furiously Work to Iterate and Pivot Steve Blank 2011
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