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cutting grass

British  

noun

  1. a W African name for cane rat

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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My best job during my school years was cutting grass at a golf course.

From The Wall Street Journal May 7, 2026

We get to witness these men fashionably in their work element: cutting grass at golden hour, scaling a palm tree like a mythical being that defies gravity.

From Los Angeles Times May 15, 2023

In corncrake habitats, farmers are asked to reverse their normal mowing practice, and to start cutting grass in the middle of their fields, and work their way out to the edge.

From New York Times Aug. 4, 2022

She had been cutting grass to feed their cattle deep inside the park boundary.

From BBC Jul. 28, 2022

Now the children were set to cutting grass and digging flower beds.

From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer

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