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— E.E. Cummings

It is said that if the dead who died in the Great

War were placed head to feet, they would stretch

from New York to San Francisco, and from San

Francisco back again to New York; and if those

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garden shears

Part of Speechnoun

A tool consisting of two blades with bevel edges, connected by a pivot, used for gardening

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Synonyms

garden shearssecateurs

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Related Words

pruning shearsgarden forktexturizing scissorsclearing sawshrub trimmerloppersspading fork

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