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Grafter   Listen
noun
Grafter  n.  
1.
One who inserts scions on other stocks, or propagates fruit by ingrafting.
2.
An instrument by which grafting is facilitated.
3.
The original tree from which a scion has been taken for grafting upon another tree.





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"Grafter" Quotes from Famous Books



... a very interesting discussion, but I have another grafter here yet. A demonstration by Mr. Jones ...
— Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Fourth Annual Meeting - Washington D.C. November 18 and 19, 1913 • Various
... excuse for elongating the business man's leg. And he is a "dead easy mark." The yap who purchases checks of strangers and bets on monte is no more gullible than the average victim of the advertising grafter. A sucker is said to be born every minute; and strange to say, most of them are produced in the cities. The business man who makes an advertising contract without investigating the circulation claims of the publisher, would invest in confederate bonds or buy gold bricks. If he suffered the loss ...
— Volume 10 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann
... was a daily. Its editor was a single-barreled grafter who wore a green mohair coat and dyed whiskers. His office and establishment occupied an entire twelve-by-sixteen tent; the name of ...
— Claim Number One • George W. (George Washington) Ogden
... they are going to be married, soon as Mr. Bruce gets the grafter who's robbing the taxpayers of Multiopolis, and collects his ...
— Michael O'Halloran • Gene Stratton-Porter
... at any rate," reminded Beatrice. "If I dislike a girl I take no pains to conceal it, and I am certainly not a grafter." ...
— Grace Harlowe's First Year at Overton College • Jessie Graham Flower
... eyes like those of a sea-monster, fixed on him, with an ironical gleam behind the heavy lenses. The grafter! He had already heard of that studio, as splendid as a palace, behind the Retire What Renovales had in such plenty had been taken from men like him who, for want of influence, had been left behind. He charged ...
— Woman Triumphant - (La Maja Desnuda) • Vicente Blasco Ibanez
... seafaring man, and you'll have to make allowances for my well-known brusqueness. Maybe I did mean you. But I'll say that next to you Curtis Gordon is the worst grafter I ever saw." ...
— The Iron Trail • Rex Beach
... thought she was wealthy; she thought he was too, Not thinking each other a grafter, They found out between them there wasn't a sou— So they laughed and ...
— Why They Married • James Montgomery Flagg


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