lawn mowerとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• lawnmower
• lawn-mower

名詞

lawn mower (複数形 lawn mowers)

1. Alternative spelling of lawnmower

引用

• 1898 Robert Budd Ross et.al. - Landmarks of Detroit;: A History of the City, - Page 738

  Aside from his interest in the above company, Mr. Johnson is president of the Pastime Lawn Mower Co. and the International Specialty Co

• 1900 Walter Hines Page, Arthur Wilson Page - The World's Work ...: A History of Our Time

  The tractor is so simple that any boy or girl may operate it, walk-ing and steering it as if it were a lawn mower, but without pushing

名詞

lawn-mower (複数形 lawn-mowers)

1. A lawnmower.
   • 1864, The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine

     Nature of rubbish, almost entirely small pieces of grass as found in the box of a lawn-mower

   • 1871, The Century: A Popular Quarterly

     soft rains have teased the daffodils into blossom along the and this morning I heard the first clicking of a lawn-mower.

   • 1991, Graham Greene, Travels With My Aunt

     I left my lawn-mower out, on the lawn, uncovered

別の表記

• lawn mower

語源

From lawn +‎ mower.

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈlɔːn.məʊ.ə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈlɔn.moʊ.ɚ/
• (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈlɑn.moʊ.ɚ/

名詞

lawnmower (複数形 lawnmowers)

1. A device used for cutting grass to a chosen height, typically of landscaped lawns of residences or institutions.

   We replaced our old electric lawnmower with a new cordless one.

   • 1877, Queensland Department of Public Instruction, Report of the Secretary for Public Instruction:

     It is only a small school, but this year the committee has expended £105 in reforming the garden, painting the fences, making a tennis court and lawn, purchasing a lawnmower etc.

   • 1912, O. Henry, Rolling Stones:

     here was an ordinary man out of the city directory that subscribes for magazines and pushes the lawnmower in his shirt-sleeves of evenings.

   • 1936, F.J. Thwaites, The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards Publishing, published 1940, page 58:

     Silence reigned, broken only by the hideous screeching of vultures and the sound of a lawn-mower being used in the hospital grounds.

2. A person who landscapes and in particular mows lawns.

   We hired a third lawnmower for the spring and summer.

3. (preceded by definite article) A dance move in which the dancer mimics using a petrol lawn mower by pulling the starter cord and then pushing the mower forwards to the beat of the music.

下位語

• rotary mower, reel mower, push mower, riding mower, electric lawn mower, robotic lawn mower

派生語

• riding lawnmower