hand mower
- noun
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- She pushes a hand mower, the last lawn cut of the season before raking starts.
Examples
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One weekend that spring, she told me it was time to buy a lawn mower for the little patch of grass that separated our building from the street, to replace the hand mower that had finally grown too rusted to push.
Fiction book (1999) -
One weekend that spring, she told me it was time to buy a lawn mower for the little patch of grass that separated our building from the street, to replace the hand mower that had finally grown too rusted to push.
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She pushes a hand mower, the last lawn cut of the season before raking starts.
Fiction book (1993) -
Every other Sunday morning, Stacia mowed the small front lawn with a rusty hand mower.
Synonyms
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2.1
A machine that cuts grass on a lawn
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3.5
A machine you sit on to cut grass
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3.2
A machine that cuts grass using a small engine
A machine with a small engine that cuts grass
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from 'hand' (manual, by hand) + 'mower' (device for trimming grass); the compound denotes a mower operated by hand. This noun-noun compounding pattern and the concept of a manually operated tool are cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
The noun hand mower shows a simple picture: a small mower pushed by your hand rather than run by a motor. That's why it means a lawn mower used 'by hand' or 'without a motor'.