loppers

English

Etymology 1

bypass loppers with double curved blades

Noun

loppers pl (plural only)

1. (plural only) Pruning shears with long handles, used for lopping

Usage notes

Analogous to scissors, often used in plural to mean a single object, particularly with a counter word, as “a pair of loppers”.

Synonyms

• lopper

Translations

pruning shears with long handles

• Dutch: takkenschaar m
• French: sécateur de force m
• German: Baumschere m, Astschere f
• Italian: troncarami m
• Spanish: podadera de brazo largo
• Swedish: busksax (sv) c

Etymology 2

Verb

loppers

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of lopper

Anagrams

• propels

Danish

Noun

loppers

1. indefinite genitive plural of loppe