weed-whacker

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Noun1.weed-whacker - a hand tool for removing weedsweed-whacker - a hand tool for removing weeds  
weeder
hand tool - a tool used with workers' hands
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These pinch-roll pullers are suited to manufacturing weed-whacker lines and 3D-printer filaments; moving and punching rigid profiles; and capturing materials trimmed from the edges of various profile and film extrusions.
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Where's a weed-whacker when you need them the most?
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It looks like a little, forgotten place that could, frankly, use a weed-whacker.
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Two friends used their Super Cub to fly in a brand-new lawn mower and I brought a weed-whacker. I parked my 172 at the end of the strip, in front of the Super Cub.
The Rogersburg fire
madagaskarensis was an efficient herbivore-"a veritable four-legged weed-whacker," according to Flynn-with teeth modified for slicing vegetation covering not only its jaws, but also the roof of its mouth.
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Some unusual methods for increasing shaft weight include inserting weed-whacker line, rope, salt, sugar, wood shafts, and even bullets of the correct diameter.
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The garden, started with such high hopes, looked as though someone had taken a weed-whacker to it.
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Don't imagine any wimpy Weed-Whacker. This thing is serious.
Letter from Lundu 10 February 2009
An occasional trip with a weed-whacker or Gravely mower sufficed to keep my weeds under control.
Why fences, and what kind?
I use a brush cutting attachment on a weed-whacker to trim out the trail every year.
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