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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



... which nailed the bearer of the creed of love upon the cross, and to-day manifests in the frantic grasping of a nation's resources, and the ruthless murder of those who ask that they, too, may have a share in that abundance which is the common birthright of all. Do the political bully, the grafter, the tout, know the meaning of love? No; but they can be taught. Oh, not by the hypocritical millionaire pietists who prate their glib platitudes to their Sunday Bible classes, and return to their luxurious homes to order the ...
— Carmen Ariza • Charles Francis Stocking
... engaged in by any one connected with putting a bill through. If I were to tell Senator Langdon what you have told me it would decide him unalterably in favor of Altacoola. Senator Langdon, sir, is one of the few men in Washington who would rather be thought a fool than a grafter if it came ...
— A Gentleman from Mississippi • Thomas A. Wise
... clever, in his ten cent way. I allow the chap's honest, mind, but, sakes alive, he's only what a N'York thief would call a "sure thing grafter."' ...
— The Record of Nicholas Freydon - An Autobiography • A. J. (Alec John) Dawson


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