scarifier

• a word derived from scarify.
  scarify

  verb (used with object)

  to make scratches or superficial incisions in (the skin), to produce an immune response or administer certain injections.

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scarifier

Who would not rather be a healer than a scarifier?

From The Secret of a Happy Home (1896) by Marion Harland

I have almost finished No. 3, in which I have relieved my indignant soul with a scarifier.

From The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 1, 1833-1856 by Georgina Hogarth

All agricultural labor is performed with the plough, harrows, and scarifier, with oxen so much less expensive than the hand labor at the Mauritius.

From 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. by P. L. Simmonds

It contains two glass cups with fittings, a brass syringe, a small glass bottle shaped like a test tube, and a brass three-point scarifier with a spring setting and a button release.

From Bloodletting Instruments in the National Museum of History and Technology by Toby Appel

He busied about with them—now riding himself upon the plough, now watching the drivers of the engines, now causing experiments to be made with the scarifier.

From World's End A Story in Three Books by Richard Jefferies

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