debrancher

See also: débrancher

English

Etymology

debranch +‎ -er

Noun

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.