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debrancher

debrancher noun: a machine for stripping the branches from trees.

Noun

debrancher (plural debranchers)

  1. A machine for stripping the branches from trees.
    • At today's lumber camps you will see more giant skidders, mammoth harvesters, and merciless mechanical debranchers than horses and grindstones.1989, Perry Garfinkel, Travel Writing for Profit and Pleasure, page 48

Forms of debrancher

pluraldebranchers

Origin of debrancher

From debranch + -er.

Questions about debrancher

What does debrancher mean?
Debrancher means a machine for stripping the branches from trees.
What part of speech is debrancher?
Debrancher is a noun.
What is the plural of debrancher?
The plural of debrancher is debranchers.

Words near debrancher in the dictionary

  1. debrains
  2. debran
  3. debranch
  4. debranchase
  5. debranched
  6. debrancher
  7. debranchers
  8. debranches
  9. debranchiate
  10. debranching
  11. debrand

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