hedge-trimmer

plural hedge-trimmers

1. alternativeAlternative form of hedge trimmer.

   Videos showed a badger entering a sett less than two metres from where the contractors had been using petrol hedge-trimmers to strim brambles, the resident said.

   2023 January 22, Jane Dalton, “Developers ‘clearing wildlife habitats without approval to win planning permission’”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Jan 2023

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   I haven’t even mentioned the “green space aliens” on the Outback. For them I take a 40-volt battery-powered hedge-trimmer and walk the lanes like Luke Skywalker with a lightsaber.

   2023 June 17, Ernest Herndon, “Doing battle with ‘green space aliens’—in yard”, in Enterprise-Journal, 133rd year, number 45, McComb, Miss., →ISSN, →OCLC, page A8, column 4

   He knew how to handle the appliances, too, all of those other little robots. Washer, dryer, lawnmower, hedge-trimmer—Ash was the machine to work the other machines.

   2025 April 27, Sarah Chamberlain, “Robocalypse”, in Sunday Star, Toronto, Ont., →ISSN, →OCLC, page IN4