leaf-blower

See also: leaf blower and leafblower

English

Noun

leaf-blower (plural leaf-blowers)

1. Alternative form of leaf blower.
   • 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:

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

   • 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:

     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.

   • 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:

     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.