scarifier

• “Brian appeared, waving, out of the shed where he was trying to dismantle a hundred year old scarifier.”

  What I cooked last night.

• “Instead of the old-fashioned lancet in the vein Sir Henry preferred the modern scarifier that was supposed to be faster and more effective.”

  Sharpe's Eagle

• “In like manner each group of people possesses its scarifier, who by practice becomes adept.”

  Negritos of Zambales

• “The scuffle-hoe, or scarifier, which completes the four, is used between narrow rows for shallow work, such as cutting off small weeds and breaking up the crust.”

  Home Vegetable Gardening — a Complete and Practical Guide to the Planting and Care of All Vegetables, Fruits and Berries Worth Growing for Home Use

• “They agreed that the modern plough ploughed better, that the scarifier did the work more quickly, but they found thousands of reasons that made it out of the question for them to use either of them; and though he had accepted the conviction that he would have to lower the standard of cultivation, he felt sorry to give up improved methods, the advantages of which were so obvious.”

  Chapter XXIX. Part III

• “When the soil has weathered a few weeks, the scarifier or cultivator should be run over it once monthly until May.”

  The Cauliflower

• “Who would not rather be a healer than a scarifier?”

  The Secret of a Happy Home (1896)

• “Fiji, from Sydney, were a stethoscope and a scarifier.”

  History of English Humour, Vol. 2 (of 2)

• “Instead of tickling it with a hoe, and watching the golden harvest leap forth, scarifier and plough, harrow and drill in almost ceaseless succession, compel the clods by sheer force of iron to deliver up their treasure.”

  Hodge and His Masters

• “He bought a Guillaume scarifier, a Valcourt weeder, an English drill-machine, and the great swing-plough of Mathieu de Dombasle, but the ploughboy disparaged it.”

  Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life

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