secateurs
(chiefly, UK, Irish, Commonwealth) Small, handheld pruning shears.
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(chiefly, UK, Irish, Commonwealth) 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.
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