lawn-mower

See also: lawnmower and lawn mower

English

Alternative forms

• lawnmower, lawn mower

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