A device used for cutting grass to a chosen height, typically of landscapedlawns 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.
Silence reigned, broken only by the hideous screeching of vultures and the sound of a lawn-mower being used in the hospital grounds.
A person who landscapes and in particular mows lawns.
We hired a third lawnmower for the spring and summer.
(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.
