string trimmer

English

Etymology

The bottom of a string trimmer.

From string +‎ trimmer.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌstɹɪŋ ˈtɹɪmə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌstɹɪŋ ˈtɹɪmɚ/
• Rhymes: -ɪmə(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: string trim‧mer

Noun

string trimmer (plural string trimmers)

1. (horticulture) A powered, hand-held garden implement that uses a rotating monofilament line to cut grass, etc., without damaging other objects.

   Synonyms: edge trimmer, line trimmer, (Britain) strimmer, (US) weed eater, (New Zealand, South Africa) weed whacker, weed whip, (Australia, Canada) whipper snipper

Translations

powered, hand-held garden implement that uses a rotating monofilament line to cut grass, etc.

• Catalan: desbrossadora f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 剪草機／剪草机 (zh) (jiǎncǎojī)

• Finnish: ruohotrimmeri, trimmeri
• French: coupe-bordure (fr) m, coupe-herbe m, débroussailleuse (fr) f
• Galician: desbrozadora f
• German: Rasentrimmer m
• Italian: decespugliatore (it), frullino (it), rifinitore m
• Norman: strînmeux m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: gresstrimmer m

• Polish: podkaszarka f
• Russian: три́ммер (ru) m (trímmer)
• Spanish: desbrozadora (es) f
• Swedish: grästrimmer (sv) c
• Turkish: tıraş makinesi (tr)

Further reading

• string trimmer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia