grafter
grafter noun: one who inserts scions on other stocks, or propagates fruit by engrafting.
Noun (1)
grafter (plural grafters)
- One who inserts scions on other stocks, or propagates fruit by engrafting.
- An instrument by which grafting is facilitated.
- The original tree from which a scion has been taken for grafting upon another tree.
- Someone who works in market stalls.
- a hard worker who puts in long hours
Noun (2)
grafter (plural grafters)
- A corrupt person, one who receives graft.
- If the people are corrupt; if everybody is a grafter, as our pessimistic friends would have us believe, Roosevelt would be unpopular. His popularity is proof that the people, as a whole, are honest.1911, The Twentieth Century Magazine, volume 4, page 335
- It is rather confused rhetoric to call a grafter a thief. His crime is not that he filches money from the safe but that he betrays a trust.1980, David Mark Chalmers, The Muchrake Years, Krieger Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 152
Forms of grafter
| plural | grafters |
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Origin of grafter
From graft + -er.
Words that rhyme with grafter
Questions about grafter
- What does grafter mean?
- Grafter means one who inserts scions on other stocks, or propagates fruit by engrafting.
- What part of speech is grafter?
- Grafter is a noun.
- What is the plural of grafter?
- The plural of grafter is grafters.
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