debrancher

noun

debrancher

noun

Etymology From debranch + -er.

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:

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