secateurs
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- n small pruning shears with a spring that holds the handles open and a single blade that closes against a flat surface
- Visiting a garden dedicated to the memory of George V, Queen Mary, the Queen Mother, genteelly prodded some ivy with her umbrella, vowed: "If I had a pair of secateurs pruning .
- Surrounded by blooms whose eye-catching shapes and colors have cool-climate florists itching for their secateurs, indigenous Fijians are belatedly discovering the commercial value .