pruning knife

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   a knife with a curved or hooked blade

   Broaderknife

Questions about pruning knife

What does pruning knife mean?

pruning knife means "a knife with a curved or hooked blade".

Is pruning knife a common word?

pruning knife is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.