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secateurs (SEK-uh-ters, SEK-uh-turs) - (UK) pl.n., handheld pruning shears.
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Almost always used in the plural form, much like scissors, and can take either a singular or plural verb. Taken in the 1880s from French sécateurs, plural of sécateur (from Latin secāre, to cut) + -ateur (from Latin -ātor, verbal suffix forming a noun of agency). So, cutters. Nicely obvious.
---L.
Thanks, WikiMedia!
Almost always used in the plural form, much like scissors, and can take either a singular or plural verb. Taken in the 1880s from French sécateurs, plural of sécateur (from Latin secāre, to cut) + -ateur (from Latin -ātor, verbal suffix forming a noun of agency). So, cutters. Nicely obvious.
---L.
