loppers

English

Etymology 1

bypass loppers with double curved blades

Noun

1. (plural only) Pruning shears with long handles, used for lopping

Usage notes

Analogous to scissors, often used in plural to mean a single object, particularly with a counter word, as “a pair of loppers”.

Synonyms

• lopper

Translations

pruning shears with long handles

• Dutch: takkenschaar m
• French: sécateur de force m
• German: Baumschere m
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• Italian: troncarami m
• Spanish: podadera de brazo largo

Etymology 2

Verb

loppers

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of lopper

Anagrams

• propels

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Danish

Noun

loppers

1. indefinite genitive plural of loppe