Secateurs

Definition: Secateurs

Secateurs

Noun

1. (British) small pruning shears with a spring that holds the handles open and a single blade that closes against a flat surface.

Synonyms: Secateurs

Synonyms by domain: grape secateurs (food & agriculture), grape shears.

Crosswords: Secateurs

Specialty definitions using "secateurs": grape secateurs, grape shears. (references)

"Secateurs" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 98.31% of the time. "Secateurs" is used about 59 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (plural)	98.31%	58	44,427
Noun (proper)	1.69%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	59	N/A

Expressions using "secateurs": grape secateurs ♦ pair of secateurs. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "secateurs"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		sekator, gërshërë krasitjeje (garden pruner, shear, shears). (various references)

Arabic		‏مقصات, ‏مقص التقليم. (various references)

Bulgarian		секатор, градинарски ножици (pruning scissors). (various references)

French		sécateur (secateur). (various references)

German		gartenschere. (various references)

Greek		ψαλίδα κλαδέματοσ. (various references)

Hebrew		מזמר�" (pruning hook), מספרים (cutters, scissors, shears). (various references)

Hungarian		metszõolló. (various references)

Italian		cesoie (clipper, hand clippers, pruning shears, shears). (various references)

Manx		skynn phollal, jouishyn baaree (pruning shears). (various references)

Pig Latin		ecateurssay

Russian		секатор (garden pruner, secateur), садовые ножницы (averruncator, clipper, garden pruner, garden shears, secateur). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		jake orezne makaze. (various references)

Spanish		podadera (bill, billhook, pruning hook, pruning knife, pruning shear, pruning-knife, slasher). (various references)

Swedish		sekatör. (various references)

Turkish		budama makası (hedge shears, pair of hedge shears, pair of secateurs, pruning shears), bahçe makası (hedge shears, pair of hedge shears, pair of secateurs, pruning shears). (various references)

Vietnamese		kéo cắt cây (secateur). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-r-s-s-t-u"
	-1 letter: cateress, cerastes, secateur, securest, surcease.
	-2 letters: actress, arcuses, austere, caestus, casters, causers, cerates, ceruses, cesurae, cesuras, creases, creates, cresset, crusets, cuestas, curates, easters, ecartes, ectases, recasts, recuses, rescues, reseats, reseaus, resects, saucers, searest, seaters, secrets, secures, sucrase, teasers, tessera, ureases.
	-3 letters: acuter, acutes, aretes, assert, assure, asters, caress, carets, carses, cartes, caster, castes.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-r-s-s-t-u"
	+1 letter: reductases.
	+2 letters: chartreuses, requiescats, resuscitate.
	+3 letters: accurateness, resuscitated, resuscitates, secularities, subsecretary, watercourses.
	+4 letters: counterstates, lucrativeness, neurasthenics, resuscitative, secretagogues, specularities, stercoraceous, subcategories, subliteracies, supercabinets, translucences, uncertainness.
	+5 letters: accuratenesses, articulateness, bureaucrateses, bureaucratises, counterstreams, creatureliness, overspeculates, subcategorizes, subsecretaries, superspectacle, translucencies, vesicularities.
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