grafter
Noun
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Noun
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.
- (slang) Someone who works in market stalls.
- Portuguese: enxertador
- Russian: привива́льщик
- Portuguese: enxertador
- Russian: садо́вый нож
- Russian: приво́й
grafter (plural grafters)
- A corrupt person, one who receives graft.
- 1911, The Twentieth Century Magazine, Vol. 4, page 335.
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- 1980, David Mark Chalmers, The Muchrake Years, Krieger Publishing Company, ISBN 0898740665, page 152.
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- 2007, Rebecca Menes, "Limiting the Reach of the Grabbing Hand: Graft and growth in American Cities, 1880 to 1930", in Edward L. Glaeser, Claudia Goldin (eds.), Corruption and Reform: Lessons from America's Economic History, National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report, The University of Chicago Press, ISBN 0226299597, page 64.
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- 1911, The Twentieth Century Magazine, Vol. 4, page 335.
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