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skin graft
Definition
to artificially join two things; or the smaller of the items joined; or the location of the joining
- The men who graft the young trees, the little vines, are the cleverest of all, for theirs is a surgeon's job, as tender and delicate; and these men must have surgeons' hands and surgeons' hearts to slit the bark, to place the grafts, to bind the wounds and cover them from the air.Chapter 25 (22% in)
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- And always they work, selecting, grafting, changing, driving themselves, driving the earth to produce.Chapter 25 (42% in)
- The men who graft the young trees, the little vines, are the cleverest of all, for theirs is a surgeon's job, as tender and delicate; and these men must have surgeons' hands and surgeons' hearts to slit the bark, to place the grafts, to bind the wounds and cover them from the air.Chapter 25 (20% in)
- They sprayed the trees and sold no crop, they pruned and grafted and could not pick the crop.Chapter 25 (64% in)
- Men who can graft the trees and make the seed fertile and big can find no way to let the hungry people eat their produce.Chapter 25 (73% in)
There are no more uses of "graft" in The Grapes of Wrath.
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