Definition of Hedge trimmer

1. Noun. A garden tool for trimming hedges.

Generic synonyms: Garden Tool, Lawn Tool

Definition of Hedge trimmer

1. Noun. A portable electric saw designed for trimming hedges. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hedge Trimmer

hedge bindweed
hedge fund
hedge funds
hedge garlic
hedge in
hedge maple
hedge mustard
hedge nettle
hedge one's bets
hedge pink
hedge sparrow
hedge sparrows
hedge thorn
hedge tree
hedge trees
hedge trimmer (current term)
hedge trimmers
hedge violet
hedgeapple
hedgeapples
hedgeberries
hedgeberry
hedgeborn
hedgebote
hedgebotes
hedged
hedged one's bets
hedgefund
hedgehog
hedgehog cactus

Literary usage of Hedge trimmer

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Laws by Illinois (1867)
"The objects of this corporation are the manufacture obj«to. of "Oliver's Patent hedge trimmer," and the planting and trimming hedges of Osage orange, ..."

2. Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary: A Description of Tools, Instruments by Edward Henry Knight (1876)
"Hedge-trimmer, Trim'ming. (Shipbuilding.) The final shaping of ship-timbers, etc., after the conversion, or Tri'glyphs. (Architecture. ..."

3. Rural Affairs by John Jacob Thomas (1875)
"We have ours trimmed every year in August, while the shoots are yet soft and green, when they yield to the hedge-trimmer like butter to a hot knife. ..."

4. Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener and Country Gentlemen (1864)
"The hedge trimmer is usually fixed upon a straight handle, but the above sketch illustrates such a hook or scythe as is used by an experienced hedge-grower. ..."

5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1892)
"I gits my hedge- trimmer, and looks in the place I'd cut. Massy ! oh, waun't there a lot o' them jacks, and no room fur 'em to rush about. ..."

6. The Illustrated Annual Register of Rural Affairs and Cultivator Almanac for by John Jacob Thomas (1873)
"We have ours trimmed every year in August, while the shoots are yet soft and green, when they yield to the hedge-trimmer like butter to a hot knife. ..."

7. Decimal Classification and Relative Index for Libraries and Personal Use: In ...by Melvil Dewey by Melvil Dewey (1922)
"... etc. .341 Grafting, etc. implements and material Budding knife, grafting knife, grafting wax .342 Pruning I Shears or primer hedge trimmer a Knife or ..."

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