scarifier

From scarify +‎ -er.

• IPA^(key): /ˈskæɹɪfaɪə(ɹ)/, /ˈskɑːɹɪfaɪə(ɹ)/

scarifier (plural scarifiers)

2. One who scarifies.
4. The instrument used for scarifying (as for example during plastering).
6. An implement for working and loosening the soil; often, one with teeth or shanks that does not bring up a fresh surface.

   Near-synonyms: cultivator, scuffler, grubber, horse hoe (not always precisely differentiated; dialectal usage has varied)

   • 1829, Robert Southey, “(please specify the page)”, in Sir Thomas More: or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Murray, […], →OCLC:

     You have your scarifiers to make the ground clean.

• “scarifier”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• sacrifier

Inherited from Old French scarifier, from Late Latin scarificāre, from Latin scarifāre (“to scarify”), from Ancient Greek σκαριφᾶσθαι (skariphâsthai, “to scratch an outline”), from σκάριφος (skáriphos, “writing, drawing, sketching”).

• IPA^(key): /ska.ʁi.fje/

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scarifier

1. (transitive) to scarify
   • 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […]‎^[1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères:

     La mère de Charles venait les voir de temps à autre; mais, au bout de quelques jours, la bru semblait l'aiguiser à son fil; et alors, comme deux couteaux, elles étaient à le scarifier par leurs réflexions et leurs observations.

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• “scarifier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• sacrifier