Other forms: lawnmowers
A lawnmower is the machine you push to cut the grass. Start the lawnmower, a petrol lawnmower, service the lawnmower.
The cylinder kind cuts with a scissor action and gives the striped finish; the rotary kind chops with a spinning blade and copes with rougher grass. Cutting too short weakens the lawn, which is the commonest mistake anybody makes with one.
1nounlawnmowerThe machine you push to cut the grass.
“My dad starts the lawnmower every Sunday morning at eight, which annoys the neighbours.”
lawnmower is a machine.
Also accepted in games: mower
From lawn + mower.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
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