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Scissors that went to the gym and now ruin branches for a living.
means A long-handled cutting tool with a hinged blade, used with both hands to cut through thick branches and stems too tough for ordinary shears.
from Built from 'lop,' meaning to cut off branches or twigs, a verb that's been in English since the 1400s with murky deeper roots — possibly related to old words for hanging or drooping limbs. Add the agent suffix '-er,' meaning 'thing that does the action,' and you get 'lopper': the thing that lops.
- design
- long handles trade speed for leverage, not precision
- two types
- bypass cuts clean, anvil crushes through deadwood
- etymology
- from lop, to cut off, since the 1400s