prunin

"Tha 'come an' did a bit o 'prunin'!" cried Dickon.

The Secret Garden 1911

"Tha 'come an' did a bit o 'prunin'!" cried Dickon.

The Secret Garden Burnett, Frances Hodgson, 1849-1924 1911

"Tha 'come an' did a bit o 'prunin'!" cried Dickon.

The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886

Seems to me as if there'd been a bit o 'prunin' done here an 'there, later than ten year' ago. "

The Secret Garden 1911

Seems to me as if there'd been a bit o 'prunin' done here an 'there, later than ten year' ago. "

The Secret Garden Burnett, Frances Hodgson, 1849-1924 1911

Seems to me as if there'd been a bit o 'prunin' done here an 'there, later than ten year' ago. "

The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886

You know the kind -- one of these deadwood specimens that stand a show of gettin 'the prunin' hook every time there's a shake-up.

Torchy Sewell Ford 1907

Course anyone's liable to have a freak cousin or so knockin 'round in the background, and I s'pose it was a star play of Mr. Robert's, givin' the glad hand to this one; but if I'd found Clifford hangin 'on my fam'ly tree I'd have felt like gettin' out the prunin 'saw.

Torchy Sewell Ford 1907

An 'she was on the eve o' floppin 'back into the prunin' scizzor points up, when I scrambled over the counter, breakin 'my straight-front in two, which she's welcome to, poor thing!

Humorous Ghost Stories Dorothy Scarborough 1906

Leastwise, after I'm done prunin 'you, thar won't be nothin' but these yere woman's saddles that you'll fit, an 'no gent, be he white or be he Greaser, can work cattle from a side-saddle.'

Wolfville Nights Alfred Henry Lewis 1885