lawn-mower

See also: lawnmower and lawn mower

English

Alternative forms

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

Translations
lawnmower — see lawnmower
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