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View synonyms for lawn mower

lawn mower

or lawnmower

noun

  1. a hand-operated or motor-driven machine for cutting the grass of a lawn.


lawn mower

noun

  1. a hand-operated or power-operated machine with rotary blades for cutting grass on lawns
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of lawn mower1

First recorded in 1865–70
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Example Sentences

The best electric lawn mowers are much more than just hair clippers with an attitude.

Let the robot do it with this intuitive automatic lawn mower.

Landscaping companies and groundskeeping crews who needed to tame and maintain large areas of grass used the big industrial lawn mowers.

This is a commercial-grade lawn mower with enough horsepower to mow an entire neighborhood.

The crisis counselors respond when there’s a naked person riding a lawn mower down a highway, or someone yelling at the shadows underneath a bridge.

I then used the same bike to pull my lawn mower (which I had also purchased) around the neighborhood to jobs.

Enrique Sr. opened a lawn-mower shop and later became a locksmith.

During head secretary Joan Holloway's goodbye party on Mad Men, the office gang takes turns riding around on a lawn mower.

A Lawn Mower Gone Mad The Sterling Cooper ad men and women always learn the ills of heavy drinking the hard way.

The busy President has hit on the same trick as I have to get out of the tiresome job of running the early-rising lawn mower.

The patient horses who pulled the road-roller or the noisy lawn-mower made his eyes redden savagely.

A loutish person promptly abandoned a lawn mower in the near distance and came to stand by the head of the languid pony.

He brought out and repaired the lawn mower, oiled its rusted parts and ran it gayly over the grass.

Wasn't right sure of him at first, 'cause he's run a lawn mower over them whiskers of his.

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