secateurs

See also: sécateurs

English

secateurs

Etymology

Borrowed from French sécateurs, plural of sécateur, from Latin secō +‎ -ateur.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛk.əˌtɜːz/, /ˈsɛk.əˌtɪəz/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈsek.ɘˌtɵːz/, /ˈsek.əˌtiəz/

Noun

secateurs pl (plural only)

1. (chiefly UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) Small, handheld pruning shears.
   • 2023 August 5, Diarmuid Gavin, “It's time to give my garden a makeover”, in Irish Independent Magazine, page 28:

     To start with, I'm going to arm myself with a saw, shears and secateurs to radically prune some of what's there.

Synonyms

• pair of secateurs
• pruning shears

Translations

pruning shears — see pruning shears

References

• The Chambers Dictionary, 1998. →ISBN

Anagrams

• traceuses