grasscutter

[gras-kuht-er, grahs-]

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

First recorded in 1850–55; grass + cutter

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Examples from the Web for grass-cutter

Historical Examples of grass-cutter

This was doubtless the identical brute that had attacked the grass-cutter.
Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier
James 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 Shore
E. 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 Burma
Herbert 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 Water
Lady (Ethel Gwendoline [Moffatt]) Vincent