lawn-mower

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See also: lawnmower and lawn mower

English

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Etymology

From lawn +‎ mower.

Noun

lawn-mower (plural lawn-mowers)

  1. A lawnmower.
    • 1864, The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine:
      Nature of rubbish, almost entirely small pieces of grass as found in the box of a lawn-mower
    • 1871, The Century: A Popular Quarterly:
      soft rains have teased the daffodils into blossom along the and this morning I heard the first clicking of a lawn-mower.
    • 1991, Graham Greene, Travels With My Aunt:
      I left my lawn-mower out, on the lawn, uncovered

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