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hedge-clippers en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative, plural, plural-only) Alternative form of hedge clippers.
    • She's got neighbours from the settled community and they're in and out of one another's houses, borrowing hedge-clippers and making sure one another are all right. 2013 August 4, Killian Fox, “Katharine Quarmby Q&A: 'I'm interested in groups on the margins'”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Aug 2013:
    • It was a tour de force for Ojeda, whose career was threatened last September when his left middle finger was nearly severed by electric hedge-clippers. 1989 June 18, Joseph Durso, “BASEBALL; One Run Is Enough For Mets”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 May 2015:
    • Wolverine (a.k.a. Logan) saves a Japanese soldier from a nuclear attack, and the grateful survivor wants to give him his sword. Logan, what with his built-in adamantium hedge-clippers, politely declines. 2013 July 25, Chris Knight, “The Wolverine, reviewed: Hugh Jackman gives his best grizzle in lumbering action flick”, in National Post, Toronto, Ont.: Postmedia Network Canada Corp., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Nov 2025: