leaf-blower

plural leaf-blowers

1. alternativeAlternative form of leaf blower.

   There was a small pool; Fenerty had used a leaf-blower to inflate it because he didn’t have the wind in his lungs to do it himself.

   2021 May 23, Mike Sielski, “No finer Philly coach — or man”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, 192nd year, number 357, Philadelphia, Pa.: The Philadelphia Inquirer, LLC, →ISSN, →OCLC, page C3, column 4

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   Armed with rakes, paint brushes and leaf-blowers, more than 100 Boise State University students helped clean up several locations around the city Saturday.

   1992 November 8, Kim Eckart, “Students spend weekend in streets”, in The Idaho Statesman, 129th year, number 103, Boise, Ida.: Gannett, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1C, column 1

   As group members come quietly up the stairs to the loft, I am still lighting the candles and turning on the twinkling lights that let our neighbors know it’s time to stop mowing, weed-whacking, and running their leaf-blowers.

   2007, Paula Huston, “At the Source”, in Ben Birnbaum, editor, Take Heart: Catholic Writers on Hope in Our Time (The Boston College Church in the 21st Century Series; 5), New York, N.Y.: The Crossroad Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 54