See also: débrancher

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Etymology edit

debranch +‎ -er

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debrancher (plural debranchers)

  1. A machine for stripping the branches from trees.
    • 1989, Perry Garfinkel, Travel Writing for Profit and Pleasure, page 48:
      At today's lumber camps you will see more giant skidders, mammoth harvesters, and merciless mechanical debranchers than horses and grindstones.

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