strimmer
/ˈstrɪmə
/noun British trademark
A powered grass trimmer with a nylon cutting cord which rotates rapidly on a spindle.Lawn mowers, strimmers and hedge trimmers are being targeted....
- Falls from ladders cause the most injuries, followed by accidents with electrical tools such as lawnmowers, power drills and hedge strimmers.
- They took lawn mowers, strimmers, chainsaws, as well as drills and tools totalling about £3,000.
Origin
1970s: probably a blend of string and trimmer.
Rhymes
- pleadingness
- pleaful
- plea-in-bar
- plea of tender
- pleasable
- pleasance
- pleasancy
- pleasant
- pleasantish
- pleasantly
- pleasantness
- Pleasanton
- pleasantry
- pleasant-sounding
- Pleasant Sunday Afternoon
- pleasant-tasting
- please
- pleased
- pleasedly
- pleasedness
- pleased to meet you
- please God
- please yourself
- plea side
- pleasing