pruning shears

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   shears with strong blades used for light pruning of woody plants

   Broadershears

   Narrowersecateurs

   plural

Questions about pruning shears

What does pruning shears mean?

pruning shears means "shears with strong blades used for light pruning of woody plants".

Is pruning shears a common word?

pruning shears is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.