[agent-n. f. ERADICATE after Lat. analogies: see -OR.]
a. One who, or that which, roots up or removes utterly. b. An agricultural or horticultural implement for uprooting.
1659. R. Gell, Amendm. Bible, 623. Sihon is Eradicator, that evil spirit that endeavours to root up all the plants of righteousness.
1807. A. Young, Agric. Essex (1813), I. 148. Eradicator … an implement.
1881. Salem (U.S.) Gaz., 10 June, 1/4. Fogg’s iron rust eradicator.
