Grafter
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Grafter is a noun meaning One who inserts scions on other stocks, or propagates fruit by engrafting.
Meaning
One who inserts scions on other stocks, or propagates fruit by engrafting.
More Meanings
- An instrument by which grafting is facilitated.
- The original tree from which a scion has been taken for grafting upon another tree.
- (British, colloquial) a hard worker who puts in long hours
- A corrupt person, one who receives graft.
- (slang) Someone who works in market stalls.
Example Sentences
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.
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.
Word Forms
- grafters
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include ingrafter, engrafter, applegrower, fruitgrower, grubstaker, gleaner.
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