(n.) One who inserts scions on other stocks, or propagates fruit by ingrafting.
(n.) An instrument by which grafting is facilitated.
(n.) The original tree from which a scion has been taken for grafting upon another tree.
Example Sentences:
(1) Across eight cask pumps, seven keg lines and three hand-pulled ciders, the Rook runs the gamut from exotic European imports (Opat's self-explanatory orange and mandarin Czech pils) to beers from lesser-spotted UK micros, such as Grafters and Jurassic Brewhouse.
(2) They are grafters who are proud of doing the "right thing".
(3) The existence of immune privilege in the brain and the newly acquired understanding of immunologic privilege in the eye may offer strategies by which neural grafters can achieve significantly greater graft acceptance.
(4) For years she was the disciplined grafter who failed four times to win a constituency seat in Westminster and Holyrood before finally triumphing in 2007 (she was elected to Holyrood in 1999 and 2003 on the regional list).
(5) Soon enough, however, it became clear this new deal of high pay and low welfare was not all it seemed: millions of the low-paid grafters he claimed to champion were going to lose out.
(6) According to reports, the chancellor’s autumn statement next week will include promises specifically targeting this notional group of modest grafters so beloved by politicians - now being referred to in Whitehall as “jams”.
(7) He records the extraordinary lives of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe who came to America, to work as retailers, as small time entrepreneurs, as grafters in the garment industry.
(8) And why should folk who don't toil be funded to live in homes that lowly grafters could never afford?
(9) Some captains want career-minded grafters, others want a more relaxed vibe.
(10) That is not to suggest Beckham deserves quite the same billing as that magical pair – he was always more grafter than genius – though he does deserve a lot more credit than he generally receives.
(11) Davidson told her party's annual conference in Edinburgh that the Tories wanted to appeal again to aspirational working-class voters – "the everyday grafters of Scotland" – so her party would use new financial powers at Holyrood to cut income taxes.
(12) He promised a tough fight to recast a new capitalism built around British values that reward the hard-working grafters and producers in business, and not the asset-stripping "predators".
(13) I have met plenty of English Brexit supporters who have expressed worries about immigration while paying warm tribute to Poles, Czechs and people from the Baltic states as admirable “grafters”, and assets to the places where they have settled.
(14) Sadiq is a grafter, he is someone who gets on with people, he is someone who is pragmatic when he needs to be and he certainly has a vision for this city.” What Labour can learn from my victory: we can’t ignore the things most voters want | Sadiq Khan Read more The Khan victory, trouncing the Tory candidate Zac Goldsmith, who had tried to paint his opponent as a dangerous “radical” and to divide Londoners of different faiths and races , has been hailed as evidence of a multicultural capital that has the self-confidence to be inclusive and tolerant.
(15) My generation is the result of a generation of grafters.
(16) Accusing David Cameron of being the last gasp of an old system, he said the country was crying out for a society in which the hard-working grafters are rewarded and the closed circles at the top of society are broken up.
(17) Yet back in the real world, or rather the place that does not have to bear very much reality at all, the past few days have yielded the usual spread of self-effacing hard grafters.
Grifter
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) And the world is full of grifters, and the music business attracts grifters.
(2) Click here to listen to track The Dead Weather's new tracks are, they claim, "ample reminders of the ferocity of this motley collection of lowlifes, grifters and ne'er-do-wells".
(3) Let her explain… Sarah Manning Photograph: Allstar The London-born punk grifter and single mum at the heart of the cloning conspiracy "I love playing her most; she's my homegirl.
(4) Fort McMurray is more than an environmental hotspot, more than a metonymy for oil sands, more than a grail for jobseekers and grifters.
(5) Few of them – including his supporters – can look at Trump and see anything but a philandering, amoral grifter.
(6) When you're famous, then you automatically become what they call a "mark", a target for grifters.