Weeder

Quick meaning: Weeder is a noun meaning An agricultural worker who removes weeds.

Meaning

An agricultural worker who removes weeds.

More Meanings

1. A tool used to remove weeds.
2. (education) Ellipsis of weeder class or weeder course.

Example Sentences

(She told me I must buy a swoe, a long-handled weeder sold by Fiskars, that changed her life.)

Weeders are often the first barrier to entry into certain professional careers for students. The most famous example is being “weeded-out” of the pre-med track.

Help me to become a pure waterer, weeder, and deadheader of our little plot, to mature from manic bride and bonnarder to the calm, the jen, of deep and ancient garden wifedom.

If these plants are young, the weeders do not see them; and in this case, when they grow larger, the land must be again weeded. But the small plants, which are not less prejudicial, such as the wild Fitch, the wild Oat, Darnel, Fennel-flower, Knot-grass, Restharrow, Fox-tail, the several sorts of Bindweed, (Convolvulus) and all the small Poppies, remain in the field.

Word Forms

• weeders

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include weedman, landworker, wheedler, fieldwoman, fieldworker, fielder.

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