• Lawn-mower

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    1. A lawnmower.
      • 1864, The Entomologist's Monthly MagazineNature of rubbish, almost entirely small pieces of grass as found in the box of a lawn-mower
      • 1871, The Century: A Popular Quarterlysoft rains have teased the daffodils into blossom along the and this morning I heard the first clicking of a lawn-mower.
      • 1991, Graham Greene, I left my lawn-mower out, on the lawn, uncovered
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