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MOWER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mower mean? 

MOWER (noun)
  The noun MOWER has 1 sense:

1. garden tool for mowing grass on lawnsplay

  Familiarity information: MOWER used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


MOWER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Garden tool for mowing grass on lawns

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

lawn mower; mower

Hypernyms ("mower" is a kind of...):

garden tool; lawn tool (used for working in gardens or yards)

Meronyms (parts of "mower"):

blade (the flat part of a tool or weapon that (usually) has a cutting edge)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mower"):

hand mower (a lawn mower that is operated by hand)

motor mower; power mower (a lawn mower powered by a gasoline motor)

Derivation:

mow (cut with a blade or mower)


 Context examples 


Noise is all around you, from televisions and radios to lawn mowers and washing machines.

(Noise, NIH: National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders)

They were in the middle of nowhere and it looked like someone had been in there with a lawn mower, Hull said.

(Belly up to the bamboo buffet: Pandas vs. horses, NSF)

At eleven o'clock a man in a raincoat dragging a lawn-mower tapped at my front door and said that Mr. Gatsby had sent him over to cut my grass.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)



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