scarifier
- a word derived from scarify.
Example Sentences
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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 Appel, Toby
It is found to succeed better when only the surface of the soil is stirred by the scarifier and harrow than when a ploughing is given.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" by Various
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 Jefferies, Richard
But something was still wanting for the better preparation of land for seed—this is the scarifier or cultivator; which, according to Mr. Pusey, will save one half of the horse-labour employed upon the plough.
From Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. by Knight, Charles
The loosening is sometimes accomplished by means of heavy spikes inserted in the roller wheels, and at others by means of a special tool known as a scarifier.
From American Rural Highways by Agg, T. R. (Thomas Radford)
