lawnmower

See also: lawn-mower and lawn mower

English

An engine powered walk-behind lawnmower.

Alternative forms

• lawn mower

Etymology

From lawn +‎ mower.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɔːn.məʊ.ə/
• IPA^(key): /ˈlɔn.moʊ.ɚ/
• IPA^(key): /ˈlɑn.moʊ.ɚ/

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Noun

lawnmower (plural lawnmowers)

1. A device used for cutting grass to a chosen height, typically of landscaped lawns of residences or institutions.

   We replaced our old electric lawnmower with a new cordless one.

   • 1877, Queensland. Dept. of Public Instruction, Report of the Secretary for Public Instruction

     It is only a small school, but this year the committee has expended £105 in reforming the garden, painting the fences, making a tennis court and lawn, purchasing a lawnmower etc.

   • 1912, O. Henry, Rolling Stones

     here was an ordinary man out of the city directory that subscribes for magazines and pushes the lawnmower in his shirt-sleeves of evenings.

2. A person who landscapes and in particular mows lawns.

   We hired a third lawnmower for the spring and summer.

Hyponyms

• push mower, riding mower

Translations

a device to cut grass

• Afrikaans: grassnyer
• Arabic: جُزَازَةُ الْعُشْبِ f (juzāzatu l-ʕušbi)
• Armenian: գազոնահնձիչ (gazonahnjičʻ)
• Belarusian: газонакасі́лка f (hazonakasílka)
• Bulgarian: косачка (bg) f (kosačka)
• Catalan: tallagespa m, talladora de gespa f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 剪草機／剪草机 (zin² cou² gei¹), 剪草机 (zin² cou² gei¹)

  Mandarin: 剪草機／剪草机 (zh) (jiǎncǎojī), 剪草机 (zh) (jiǎncǎojī), 割草機／割草机 (zh) (gēcǎojī), 割草机 (zh) (gēcǎojī)

• Czech: sekačka (cs) f, sekačka na trávu f
• Danish: græsslåmaskine (da) c, plæneklipper (da) c
• Dutch: grasmaaimachine f
• Esperanto: gazonotondilo, gazontondilo
• Estonian: muruniiduk
• Finnish: ruohonleikkuri (fi)
• French: tondeuse à gazon (fr) f, tondeuse (fr) f
• Galician: cortacéspede m
• German: Rasenmäher (de) m
• Greek: χλοοκοπτική μηχανή f (chlookoptikí michaní)
• Hungarian: fűnyíró (hu), fűnyíró gép
• Icelandic: sláttuvél f
• Ido: gazonotondilo (io)
• Indonesian: pemotong rumput
• Irish: buainteoir m, lomaire m, lomaire léana m, lomaire faiche m
• Italian: tosaerba m, falciatrice (it) f, tagliaerba (it) m, rasaerba m
• Japanese: 芝刈り機 (しばかりき, shibakariki)
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• Korean: 예취기 (yechwigi), 잔디깎기 (jandikkakgi)
• Lithuanian: vejapjovė f
• Macedonian: косилка f (kosilka)
• Malay: halaman rumput
• Manx: buinneyder faaie
• Maori: moua, mīhini pōtarotaro
• Navajo: tłʼoh bee daalzhéhígíí, tłʼoh bee yilzhéhé
• Norman: faûcheuse f (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: gressklipper m, plenklipper m

  Nynorsk: grasklippar m, grasklyppar m, plenklippar m

• Polish: kosiarka (pl) f
• Portuguese: cortador de grama (pt) m
• Romanian: cositoare (ro) f
• Romansch: segapastget m
• Russian: газонокоси́лка (ru) f (gazonokosílka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: косилица f

  Roman: kosilica (sh) f, kosačica (sh) f

• Slovak: kosačka f
• Spanish: cortacésped (es) f, cortahierba, cortapasto, cortador de césped m, cortador de hierba m, cortador de pasto m, podadora (es) f
• Swedish: gräsklippare (sv) c
• Ukrainian: газонокоса́рка f (hazonokosárka)
• Vietnamese: máy cắt cỏ
• Volapük: yebifodian
• Welsh: peiriant torri glaswellt m, peiriant torri lawnt m

a person who landscapes and in particular mows lawns

• Esperanto: gazonotondisto, gazontondisto
• Irish: buainteoir m
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• Russian: газонокоси́льщик (ru) m (gazonokosílʹščik)