grasscutter
[gras-kuht-er, grahs-]
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noun
a device used to cut grass, as a lawn mower.
Baseball. a ground ball that travels with great speed across the infield close to and barely touching the turf.
Origin of grasscutter
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Historical Examples of grass-cutter
This was doubtless the identical brute that had attacked the grass-cutter.
Sport and Work on the Nepaul FrontierJames Inglis
"Where's the grass-cutter," I shouted, jumping off him in about as great a fury as I ever was in.
All on the Irish ShoreE. Somerville and Martin Ross
Towards evening he walks to the Bodhi-tree and meets a grass-cutter who offers him grass to make a seat.
Hinduism and Buddhism, Vol I. (of 3)Charles Eliot
In a moment, recognizing the catastrophe, the grass-cutter gave his best attention to the victim of his fear, but in vain.
A Civil Servant in BurmaHerbert Thirkel White
Two syces, or grooms for one pair of horses (the allowance being one syce and one grass-cutter to every horse).
Forty Thousand Miles Over Land and WaterLady (Ethel Gwendoline [Moffatt]) Vincent