secateurs
nounUK /ˈsɛk.əˌtɜːz/ · NZ /ˈsek.ɘˌtɵːz/
Etymology Borrowed from French sécateurs, plural of sécateur, from Latin secō + -ateur.
1
Commonwealth, Ireland, UK Small, handheld pruning shears.
- To start with, I'm going to arm myself with a saw, shears and secateurs to radically prune some of what's there.2023 August 5, Diarmuid Gavin, “It's time to give my garden a makeover”, in Irish Independent Magazine, page 28:
- Synonyms
- pair of secateurs, pruning shears