hedge trimmer
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- noun
- /hɛdʒ ˈtrɪmər/
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cortasetos
- And people were at work in their yards, running their mowers or their hedge trimmers, filling the air with a visible green dust that made Therese (the allergic one) sneeze.
- an electric hedge trimmer
- mowers and hedge trimmers
Examples
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This mailman over in Lawndale freaked out, and he chopped up his entire family with a hedge trimmer.
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For example, Little Wonder Inc. of Southampton, Pa., a manufacturer of power garden tools, recently used the SLS process to produce a functional nylon prototype of its newest double-sided hedge trimmer.
Academic text (1995) -
Hi, I'm sick and tired of using regular hedge trimmers like this one.
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They have bought a hedge trimmer and a safe.
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He's gonna get the camp counselor with the hedge trimmer.
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And then probably the loppers, hedge trimmers if I'm doing a larger swath of perennials.
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It's Saturday morning, and the hum of distant lawn mowers and hedge trimmers echoes through the neighborhood.
Fiction book (1995) -
[hedge trimmer whirs]
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We brought shovels, blowers, wagons, containers, hedge trimmers, all kinds of goodies.
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In fall, after blooms fade, Thompson uses a hedge trimmer to clean off the old blooms, removing very little foliage.
Synonyms
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A small tool with blades used to cut hair or nails
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A tool with a long handle and curved blade for cutting small branches
How Powerful
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from combining 'hedge' (a row of shrubs) with 'trimmer' (a tool for clipping), so it denotes a tool for trimming hedges. This noun–noun compound follows productive English compounding patterns and is cross-linguistically obvious, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
The compound noun hedge trimmer comes from a simple picture: sharp blades cutting the sides of a green wall of bushes. A hedge is a row of shrubs and a trimmer is something that makes them neat, so the name means a tool used to cut and shape garden hedges.