grass cuttern.

Brit.

/ˈɡrɑːs kʌtə/,

/ˈɡras kʌtə/, U.S.

/ˈɡræs ˌkədər/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: grass n.¹, cutter n.¹

Etymology: < grass n.¹ + cutter n.¹; in sense 1 probably originally after Hindi ghasiyārā, in the same sense (ultimately reflecting a Sanskrit compound < ghāsa fodder, pasture grass + a derivative of kṛ- to make: see karma n.).The later Hindi ghāskaṭā, ghāskāṭā, ghāskāṭ ( < ghās grass, fodder + derivatives of kāṭnā to cut) is probably after English.

1. Originally and chiefly in South Asia: a person who is tasked with or earns money by cutting and bringing in grass for use as fodder for horses or other animals; esp. (chiefly in British India) one employed to do this as an attendant travelling with an army or other group (now historical). Now more commonly: a person whose job or role is to cut or mow grass; one employed or engaged to cut the grass in a particular area.

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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > cutting, reaping, or mowing > mowing of grass > one who > for horses

grass cutter1770

grass-cut1842

1770 J. Banks Jrnl. 30 Apr. (1962) II. 56 The grass cutters were farthest from the body of the people: towards them came 14 or 15 Indians.

1789 I. Munro Narr. Mil. Operations Coromandel Coast iii. 28 An Horsekeeper and Grasscutter at two pagodas.

1824 R. Heber Jrnl. 19 Oct. in Narr. Journey Upper Provinces India (1828) I. xv. 371 I should..give a gratuity of two rupees among the wood and grass-cutters.

1888 C. E. Yate N. Afghanistan 9 It is a great comfort to be away from villages and cultivation, where there is always the danger of some quarrel over a restless grass-cutter or a stray mule.

1955 Changing Times June 41/1 Mowing the lawn takes brains. If that sounds like a joke, okay. But don't joke about it with anyone who is a professional grass cutter.

1973 J. Harris Indian Mutiny iv. 52 The army had need of enormous numbers of the camp followers—the grooms, the water carriers, the grass-cutters,..and the servants—who made the moving of an army in India such a vast undertaking.

1977 HIS Oct. 14/1 One of the persons who gives regularly is a grass cutter. She cuts grass to sell as fodder.

2012 C. Cotterill Grandad, there's Head on Beach xi. 223 I was left with only the shame of the erotic thoughts that had forced me onto our grass cutter.

a. A tool or machine for cutting grass; esp. a lawnmower.

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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > equipment and buildings > [noun] > lawn-mower

steam lawn-mower1812

grass cutter1834

grass mower1855

lawn-mower1875

grass trimmer1876

lawn-cutter1897

motor mower1907

power mower1913

lawn edger1960

Strimmer1978

1834 Bury & Norwich Post 25 Feb. (advt.) Charles Willett... Agent for Budding's Patent Grass Cutter.

1870 F. J. Scott Art beautifying Suburban Home Grounds xiii. 111 Pushing these grass-cutters over a velvety lawn.

1956 Financial Times 24 Mar. 5/8 Tarpen markets several other electric power tools for the garden including a grasscutter and verge cutter.

2017 Brighouse Echo (Nexis) 3 Aug. Officials from Brighouse Town have said thieves have broken into a container and stolen the grass cutter which is used to maintain the pitches at the ground on St Giles Road.

b. Sport. colloquial. Cf. daisy-cutter n. 2.

(a) Cricket. A ball bowled underarm along the ground, esp. at a brisk pace.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > bowling > [noun] > a ball bowled > types of delivery or ball

full toss1826

long hop1830

twister1832

bail ball1833

bailer1833

grubber1837

slow ball1838

wide1838

ground ball1839

shooter1843

slower ball1846

twiddler1847

creeper1848

lob1851

sneak1851

sneaker1851

slow1854

bumper1855

teaser1856

daisy-cutter1857

popper1857

yorker1861

sharpshooter1863

headball1866

screwball1866

underhand1866

skimmerc1868

grub1870

ramrod1870

raymonder1870

round-armer1871

grass cutter1876

short pitch1877

leg break1878

lob ball1880

off-break1883

donkey-drop1888

tice1888

fast break1889

leg-breaker1892

kicker1894

spinner1895

wrong 'un1897

googly1903

fizzer1904

dolly1906

short ball1911

wrong 'un1911

bosie1912

bouncer1913

flyer1913

percher1913

finger-spinner1920

inswinger1920

outswinger1920

swinger1920

off-spinner1924

away swinger1925

Chinaman1929

overspinner1930

tweaker1938

riser1944

leg-cutter1949

seamer1952

leggy1954

off-cutter1955

squatter1955

flipper1959

lifter1959

cutter1960

beamer1961

loosener1962

doosra1999

1876 Cumberland Mercury (Parramatta, New S. Wales) 11 Nov. 5/3 They had not such bowling to contend against, our men's trundling being very inferior indeed, some of them bowling ‘hoppers’ and ‘grass-cutters’, which received a very warm reception in most instances.

1877 Tauntonian 30 June 101/1 In ordinary bowling, such as we generally meet with, we may expect almost anything from a ‘grass-cutter’ to a ‘skyraker’.

1896 Bengal Tiger 30 June 10/2 Messrs Stone and Murray batted steadily, but could not overcome the bowling, especially the grass cutters of Sergeant Broadway.

2011 @wblack1975 28 Feb. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Watching the cricket. Kieron Pollard for the Windies is immense. 29 from 10 balls so far. Tip to Dutch bowlers bowl grass cutters.

(b) Chiefly Baseball and Golf. A ball propelled with a low trajectory or along the ground, esp. with force.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > [noun] > pitching > types of pitch

change of pace1650

slow ball1838

passed ball1860

ball1863

rib roaster1864

called ball1865

low ball1866

wild pitch1867

curveball1875

short pitch1877

grass cutter1879

fastball1883

downshoot1886

lob ball1888

pitchout1903

bean ballc1905

spitball1905

screwball1908

spitter1908

sinker ball1910

fallaway1912

meatball1912

fireball1913

roundhouse1913

forkball1923

sinker1926

knuckle ball1927

knuckler1928

gofer1932

slider1936

sailer1937

junk1941

change up1942

eephus1943

junkball1944

split-finger(ed) fastball1980

change1982

1879 Inter Ocean (Chicago) 3 July 2/1 Williamson hit for a base, but Anson sent a grass-cutter to McVey, and closed the inning with the score still a tie.

1929 Longreach (Queensland) Leader 20 Sept. 11/2 Mrs. Seccombe's second was sent well down the fairway, and her third was a ‘grass-cutter’.

1993 L. Davies Work, Sex & Rugby 38 The efforts were of widely varying quality, the big forwards illustrated clearly why they were never given the honour on a Saturday afternoon with a variety of grasscutters, improbable hooks and wide slices.

2004 N.Y. Post (Nexis) 16 June 122 Phil Mickelson agreed that the greens preclude the low-flight grass-cutters.

c. Aeronautics slang. (A name for) an aeroplane modified so that it cannot fly too high above the ground or is incapable of taking off, used in the early stages of a pilot's training; (also) a similar machine designed for this purpose. Later also more generally: a low-flying aeroplane. Cf. penguin n. 1b. Now historical.

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society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > [noun] > low-flying aircraft

low-flyer1808

grass cutter1911

hedge-hopper1940

wave-hopper1957

1911 Aeronautics May 188/1 The chassis of an electric automobile has been used as a running gear for one machine, which will be employed as a ‘grass-cutter’, in which students will run over the ground.

1918 Independent 6 July 11 This plane with clipped wings which keep it no more than six feet above the ground is variously nicknamed by the aviators ‘grass-cutter’, ‘creeper’, ‘two-spot’.

1942 Pop. Sci. Monthly Feb. 88/1 Most of the work is done at low altitudes. The attack bomber is necessarily a grass-cutter at times.

2000 D. Gordon Lafayette Flying Corps i. 12/2 Once he had conquered the ‘penguin’ ‘grass cutter’ he was ordered inside a forty-five horsepower, six-cylinder Bleriot Rouleur with a twenty-foot wing span.

d. Military slang. (A name for) a small anti-personnel fragmentation bomb which scatters shrapnel at a low level when it explodes. Cf. daisy-cutter n. Additions a. Now historical.

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > explosive device > [noun] > bomb > fragmentation

fragmentation bomb1918

grass cutter1925

parafrag bomb1944

scatter bomb1961

lazy dog1965

cluster bomb1967

pellet bomb1967

mother-bomb1971

nail bomb1971

1925 R. L. Bullard Personalities & Reminisc. War xx. 188 His ‘grass-cutters’—a light bomb for use against men and animals—could be heard crashing far and wide over the sector as our wagons and men moved to the forward positions at night.

1944 W. W. Elton et al. Guide Naval Aviation ix. 165 Blast effect is of little importance when using these ‘grass-cutters’. The hurtling, whizzing fragments do the damage.

1997 C. S. Nordin We were Next to Nothing 47 Grassy areas will look like a mown lawn whenever an antipersonnel bomb explodes. In fact, they were sometimes called grass cutters.

2015 M. J. Davenport First over There v. 95 German fighters—armed with machine guns and small, handdropped bombs nicknamed ‘grass-cutters’—flew in a constant, menacing stream over American positions.

†3. Printing slang. A compositor employed on a casual or temporary basis; = grass hand n. 1. Cf. grass n.¹ 11. Obsolete. rare.

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society > communication > printing > printer > [noun] > compositor > temporary

grass hand1850

grass cutter1853

sub1854

substitute1855

1853 C. M. Smith Working-man's Way in World ii. 20 My father was a grass-cutter for twenty years on the Morning ——.

4. Either of two cane rats comprising the genus Thryonomys and family Thryonomyidae, which are native to sub-Saharan Africa and feed on aquatic grasses and agricultural crops. Also: the flesh of such an animal used as food.Also called cutting grass.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > superfamily Hystricomorpha (porcupine or guinea-pig) > [noun] > family Thryonomyidae (cane rat)

cane-rat1876

cutting grass1934

grass cutter1946

1946 G. S. Cansdale Animals W. Afr. 62 Next in size is the Cutting Grass, Grass Cutter or Cane Rat.

1978 FAO Forestry Paper No. 7 91 As much as 70 percent of locally produced meat may come from wild animals, particularly from some of the smaller types, such as grasscutters (Thryonomys spp).

1988 Human Ecol. 16 203 Answers to our questionnaires showed that the grasscutter was unquestionably the most popular meat.

2002 Times 9 Feb. (Travel section) 11/2 The roadsides were dripping with mangos (ten for 10p) and sellers of smoked grasscutter (a large rodent) and enormous snails.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	grass cutter
释义	grass cuttern. Brit. /ˈɡrɑːs kʌtə/, /ˈɡras kʌtə/, U.S. /ˈɡræs ˌkədər/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: grass n.¹, cutter n.¹ Etymology: < grass n.¹ + cutter n.¹; in sense 1 probably originally after Hindi ghasiyārā, in the same sense (ultimately reflecting a Sanskrit compound < ghāsa fodder, pasture grass + a derivative of kṛ- to make: see karma n.).The later Hindi ghāskaṭā, ghāskāṭā, ghāskāṭ ( < ghās grass, fodder + derivatives of kāṭnā to cut) is probably after English. 1. Originally and chiefly in South Asia: a person who is tasked with or earns money by cutting and bringing in grass for use as fodder for horses or other animals; esp. (chiefly in British India) one employed to do this as an attendant travelling with an army or other group (now historical). Now more commonly: a person whose job or role is to cut or mow grass; one employed or engaged to cut the grass in a particular area. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > cutting, reaping, or mowing > mowing of grass > one who > for horses grass cutter1770 grass-cut1842 1770 J. Banks Jrnl. 30 Apr. (1962) II. 56 The grass cutters were farthest from the body of the people: towards them came 14 or 15 Indians. 1789 I. Munro Narr. Mil. Operations Coromandel Coast iii. 28 An Horsekeeper and Grasscutter at two pagodas. 1824 R. Heber Jrnl. 19 Oct. in Narr. Journey Upper Provinces India (1828) I. xv. 371 I should..give a gratuity of two rupees among the wood and grass-cutters. 1888 C. E. Yate N. Afghanistan 9 It is a great comfort to be away from villages and cultivation, where there is always the danger of some quarrel over a restless grass-cutter or a stray mule. 1955 Changing Times June 41/1 Mowing the lawn takes brains. If that sounds like a joke, okay. But don't joke about it with anyone who is a professional grass cutter. 1973 J. Harris Indian Mutiny iv. 52 The army had need of enormous numbers of the camp followers—the grooms, the water carriers, the grass-cutters,..and the servants—who made the moving of an army in India such a vast undertaking. 1977 HIS Oct. 14/1 One of the persons who gives regularly is a grass cutter. She cuts grass to sell as fodder. 2012 C. Cotterill Grandad, there's Head on Beach xi. 223 I was left with only the shame of the erotic thoughts that had forced me onto our grass cutter. 2. a. A tool or machine for cutting grass; esp. a lawnmower. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > equipment and buildings > [noun] > lawn-mower steam lawn-mower1812 grass cutter1834 grass mower1855 lawn-mower1875 grass trimmer1876 lawn-cutter1897 motor mower1907 power mower1913 lawn edger1960 Strimmer1978 1834 Bury & Norwich Post 25 Feb. (advt.) Charles Willett... Agent for Budding's Patent Grass Cutter. 1870 F. J. Scott Art beautifying Suburban Home Grounds xiii. 111 Pushing these grass-cutters over a velvety lawn. 1956 Financial Times 24 Mar. 5/8 Tarpen markets several other electric power tools for the garden including a grasscutter and verge cutter. 2017 Brighouse Echo (Nexis) 3 Aug. Officials from Brighouse Town have said thieves have broken into a container and stolen the grass cutter which is used to maintain the pitches at the ground on St Giles Road. b. Sport. colloquial. Cf. daisy-cutter n. 2. (a) Cricket. A ball bowled underarm along the ground, esp. at a brisk pace. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > bowling > [noun] > a ball bowled > types of delivery or ball full toss1826 long hop1830 twister1832 bail ball1833 bailer1833 grubber1837 slow ball1838 wide1838 ground ball1839 shooter1843 slower ball1846 twiddler1847 creeper1848 lob1851 sneak1851 sneaker1851 slow1854 bumper1855 teaser1856 daisy-cutter1857 popper1857 yorker1861 sharpshooter1863 headball1866 screwball1866 underhand1866 skimmerc1868 grub1870 ramrod1870 raymonder1870 round-armer1871 grass cutter1876 short pitch1877 leg break1878 lob ball1880 off-break1883 donkey-drop1888 tice1888 fast break1889 leg-breaker1892 kicker1894 spinner1895 wrong 'un1897 googly1903 fizzer1904 dolly1906 short ball1911 wrong 'un1911 bosie1912 bouncer1913 flyer1913 percher1913 finger-spinner1920 inswinger1920 outswinger1920 swinger1920 off-spinner1924 away swinger1925 Chinaman1929 overspinner1930 tweaker1938 riser1944 leg-cutter1949 seamer1952 leggy1954 off-cutter1955 squatter1955 flipper1959 lifter1959 cutter1960 beamer1961 loosener1962 doosra1999 1876 Cumberland Mercury (Parramatta, New S. Wales) 11 Nov. 5/3 They had not such bowling to contend against, our men's trundling being very inferior indeed, some of them bowling ‘hoppers’ and ‘grass-cutters’, which received a very warm reception in most instances. 1877 Tauntonian 30 June 101/1 In ordinary bowling, such as we generally meet with, we may expect almost anything from a ‘grass-cutter’ to a ‘skyraker’. 1896 Bengal Tiger 30 June 10/2 Messrs Stone and Murray batted steadily, but could not overcome the bowling, especially the grass cutters of Sergeant Broadway. 2011 @wblack1975 28 Feb. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Watching the cricket. Kieron Pollard for the Windies is immense. 29 from 10 balls so far. Tip to Dutch bowlers bowl grass cutters. (b) Chiefly Baseball and Golf. A ball propelled with a low trajectory or along the ground, esp. with force. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > [noun] > pitching > types of pitch change of pace1650 slow ball1838 passed ball1860 ball1863 rib roaster1864 called ball1865 low ball1866 wild pitch1867 curveball1875 short pitch1877 grass cutter1879 fastball1883 downshoot1886 lob ball1888 pitchout1903 bean ballc1905 spitball1905 screwball1908 spitter1908 sinker ball1910 fallaway1912 meatball1912 fireball1913 roundhouse1913 forkball1923 sinker1926 knuckle ball1927 knuckler1928 gofer1932 slider1936 sailer1937 junk1941 change up1942 eephus1943 junkball1944 split-finger(ed) fastball1980 change1982 1879 Inter Ocean (Chicago) 3 July 2/1 Williamson hit for a base, but Anson sent a grass-cutter to McVey, and closed the inning with the score still a tie. 1929 Longreach (Queensland) Leader 20 Sept. 11/2 Mrs. Seccombe's second was sent well down the fairway, and her third was a ‘grass-cutter’. 1993 L. Davies Work, Sex & Rugby 38 The efforts were of widely varying quality, the big forwards illustrated clearly why they were never given the honour on a Saturday afternoon with a variety of grasscutters, improbable hooks and wide slices. 2004 N.Y. Post (Nexis) 16 June 122 Phil Mickelson agreed that the greens preclude the low-flight grass-cutters. c. Aeronautics slang. (A name for) an aeroplane modified so that it cannot fly too high above the ground or is incapable of taking off, used in the early stages of a pilot's training; (also) a similar machine designed for this purpose. Later also more generally: a low-flying aeroplane. Cf. penguin n. 1b. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > [noun] > low-flying aircraft low-flyer1808 grass cutter1911 hedge-hopper1940 wave-hopper1957 1911 Aeronautics May 188/1 The chassis of an electric automobile has been used as a running gear for one machine, which will be employed as a ‘grass-cutter’, in which students will run over the ground. 1918 Independent 6 July 11 This plane with clipped wings which keep it no more than six feet above the ground is variously nicknamed by the aviators ‘grass-cutter’, ‘creeper’, ‘two-spot’. 1942 Pop. Sci. Monthly Feb. 88/1 Most of the work is done at low altitudes. The attack bomber is necessarily a grass-cutter at times. 2000 D. Gordon Lafayette Flying Corps i. 12/2 Once he had conquered the ‘penguin’ ‘grass cutter’ he was ordered inside a forty-five horsepower, six-cylinder Bleriot Rouleur with a twenty-foot wing span. d. Military slang. (A name for) a small anti-personnel fragmentation bomb which scatters shrapnel at a low level when it explodes. Cf. daisy-cutter n. Additions a. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > explosive device > [noun] > bomb > fragmentation fragmentation bomb1918 grass cutter1925 parafrag bomb1944 scatter bomb1961 lazy dog1965 cluster bomb1967 pellet bomb1967 mother-bomb1971 nail bomb1971 1925 R. L. Bullard Personalities & Reminisc. War xx. 188 His ‘grass-cutters’—a light bomb for use against men and animals—could be heard crashing far and wide over the sector as our wagons and men moved to the forward positions at night. 1944 W. W. Elton et al. Guide Naval Aviation ix. 165 Blast effect is of little importance when using these ‘grass-cutters’. The hurtling, whizzing fragments do the damage. 1997 C. S. Nordin We were Next to Nothing 47 Grassy areas will look like a mown lawn whenever an antipersonnel bomb explodes. In fact, they were sometimes called grass cutters. 2015 M. J. Davenport First over There v. 95 German fighters—armed with machine guns and small, handdropped bombs nicknamed ‘grass-cutters’—flew in a constant, menacing stream over American positions. †3. Printing slang. A compositor employed on a casual or temporary basis; = grass hand n. 1. Cf. grass n.¹ 11. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > printer > [noun] > compositor > temporary grass hand1850 grass cutter1853 sub1854 substitute1855 1853 C. M. Smith Working-man's Way in World ii. 20 My father was a grass-cutter for twenty years on the Morning ——. 4. Either of two cane rats comprising the genus Thryonomys and family Thryonomyidae, which are native to sub-Saharan Africa and feed on aquatic grasses and agricultural crops. Also: the flesh of such an animal used as food.Also called cutting grass. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > superfamily Hystricomorpha (porcupine or guinea-pig) > [noun] > family Thryonomyidae (cane rat) cane-rat1876 cutting grass1934 grass cutter1946 1946 G. S. Cansdale Animals W. Afr. 62 Next in size is the Cutting Grass, Grass Cutter or Cane Rat. 1978 FAO Forestry Paper No. 7 91 As much as 70 percent of locally produced meat may come from wild animals, particularly from some of the smaller types, such as grasscutters (Thryonomys spp). 1988 Human Ecol. 16 203 Answers to our questionnaires showed that the grasscutter was unquestionably the most popular meat. 2002 Times 9 Feb. (Travel section) 11/2 The roadsides were dripping with mangos (ten for 10p) and sellers of smoked grasscutter (a large rodent) and enormous snails. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1770
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